Volume 3 I Number 1 WINTER 2007 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA MISSION LETTER FROM THE EDITOR College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a It is Fat Tuesday as I write this, the last day of distinctive educational philoso- phy-human ecology. A human carnival, a time when the world is turned topsy- ecological perspective integrates turvy and we recognize that the very things we knowledge from all academic most try to hide are the ones that will jump out disciplines and from personal to surprise us. How fitting, then, to have Nancy experience to investigate, and Andrews' demonic puppets on the cover, ultimately improve, the relation- whirling devils teasing us, even terrifying us, ships between human beings and insisting we pay attention-not just to the our social and natural communi- world around, but to the world inside. And as ties. The human ecological per- we do, maybe even to laugh a little, because as spective guides all aspects of odd and frightening as these puppets may be, they are also quite education, research, activism and endearing-few things are as frightening as we fear they will be when interactions among the college's we allow them to reach the light of day. students, faculty, staff and For years, the wild mystery of Nancy's films have had their New York trustees. The College of the Atlantic community encourages, premiere at the Museum of Modern Art, the nation's foremost show- prepares, and expects students case of contemporary art. Recently, her edgy creativity has also come to to gain the expertise, breadth, the awareness of Maine, where she's just received the first-ever values, and practical experience "Outside the Frame" award from the Maine International Film Festival necessary to achieve individual for her Ima Plume Trilogy. fulfillment and to help solve prob- Like all issues of COA, this one is a kaleidoscope of the energy and lems that challenge communities activity of the broad COA community, from our heritage as environ- everywhere. mental crusaders to a tribute to our passionate trustee, Alice Eno. But most of all, this magazine celebrates the ways we step away from the world of crusades and research to seek out the world inside. This COVER: issue features three faculty members whose artistic guidance has given Puppets by Nancy Andrews students one of life's most essential tools: the power to transform expe- These puppets, inspired by rience. We offer you a taste of Nancy Andrews' puppet demons, a Japanese prints of ghosts glimpse into how John Cooper introduces dozens of students a term to and demons, were used in music, and a sneak preview of the first chapter of Bill Carpenter's novel- Andrews' most recent film, The Haunted Camera, the in-progress, Victory Garden. last of her Ima Plume Trilogy. Photo by Toby Hollis Enjoy. BACK COVER: Jamus Drury '08 took Donna Gold this photo of displaying editor, COA great frigatebirds while volunteering on Tern Island, a thirty-four-acre sand and coral island that is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. While on the island, Drury is researching the reproductive success of two species of albatross as well as the Tristram's storm-petrel. More of his photos can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/ jamusdrury features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 3 Number 1 WINTER 2007 EDITOR Donna Gold COA Gets Top Marks in Student Engagement ~ p. 3 EDITORIAL BOARD Sarah Barrett '08 A Pledge to Tackle Global Warming by Paul Thacker ~ p. 4 Richard J. Borden Dru Colbert Carla Ganiel The NASCAR Hybrid by Inaugural Speaker Frank Loy ~ p. 6 Noreen Hogan '91 Jennifer Hughes Linda Mejia '09 Making Sure COA is There for Others ~ p. 14 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT A donor profile of Elena Tuhy '90 Bill Carpenter ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Alice Eno: Force of Nature ~ p. 15 Jill Barlow-Kelley A tribute by John Anderson Milja Brecher-DeMuro COPY EDITOR What Do We Need to Start a College? ~ p. 16 Jennifer Hughes An oral history interview with Ann Peach DESIGN Mahan Graphics PRINTING BY Winter Ecology ~ p. 18 JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine Excerpts from a field journal by Rowen Gorman '07 Class of '74 Takes on Nation's Largest Landowner ~ p. 24 COA ADMINISTRATION TRUSTEES David Hales Edward McC. Blair, Sr. In their separate ways, Bill Ginn and Cathy Johnson President Life Trustee work to get Plum Creek to do the right thing by Loie Hayes '79 Eliot Coleman Kenneth Hill Alice Eno Academic Dean, David H. Fischer Associate Dean of The Magical Piece ~ p. 30 William G. Foulke, Jr. Academic Services Timothy Fuller '03 John Cooper's human ecology of music John Anderson James M. Gower, Associate Dean Life Trustee for Advanced Studies George B.E. Hambleton Nancy Andrews ~ p. 34 Charles E. Hewett David Feldman Drawings and paintings from The Haunted Camera Sherry F. Huber Associate Dean John N. Kelly, for Academic Affairs Trustee Emeritus Victory Garden ~ p. 37 Andrew Griffiths Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Administrative Dean Susan Storey Lyman, Novel-in-progress by Bill Carpenter Life Trustee Sarah Luke Suzanne Folds McCullagh Associate Dean Sarah A. McDaniel '93 for Student Life Stephen G. Milliken Karen Waldron Philip S.J. Moriarty departments Associate Dean Phillis Anina Moriarty for Faculty William V.P. Newlin Daniel Pierce BOARD OF TRUSTEES Helen Porter Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Cathy L. Ramsdell '78, COA Beat p. 3 Chairman Trustee Emeritus Elizabeth D. Hodder John Reeves Class Notes p. 44 Vice Chair Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., SHE Conference Notes p. 48 Casey Mallinckrodt Life Trustee Vice Chair Clyde E. Shorey, Jr., Life Trustee Faculty & Community Notes p. 50 Ronald E. Beard Secretary Donald B. Straus, Life Trustee Leslie C. Brewer Cody van Heerden Treasurer John Wilmerding Annual Report ~ p. 52 Appreciating our donors COA is published twice each year for the College of the Atlantic community. Greg Stone: Ocean Defender ~ p. 64 Please direct correspondence to: COA Magazine College of the Atlantic When Professors Change: What I Learned at COA ~ p. 65 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 The Human Ecology Essay Revisited Phone: (207) 288-5015 by Etta Kralovec email: dgold@coa.edu www.coa.edu This publication is printed on recycled paper. Chlorine free, acid free manufacturing process. LETTER _FROM THE PRESIDENT At College of the Atlantic we believe that relationships among humans and between humans and the environment can be made more sus- tainable, more peaceful and more just. We believe that humans are firmly and inextricably embedded in the natural world, and that each person can make a difference. We believe that leadership in response to global challenges is a fun- damental purpose of institutions of higher education. Because we believe these things, we have a responsibility to make it so, and to act in ways that demonstrate that it is possible. It is clear today that business as usual as of the end of the twentieth century will never produce a world in which we want our children and grandchildren to live at the end of the twenty-first century. We must do things better, and we must start with our own actions. This fall, our trustees declared that COA will be a NETZERO institution with regard to the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. COA will do whatever is possible to avoid and reduce emissions. For those emissions we cannot avoid or reduce, we will invest in quantifiable and verifiable emissions reductions elsewhere that totally offset our contributions to the warming of this planet. The Kathryn Davis Student Village, on which construction will begin this spring, will not only be spectacular student housing, it will be the epitome of "green" construction, heated and lighted without any net contribution to global warming. We have shifted our marine fleet to ethanol-based fuel, and the few vehicles we own will follow this pattern as they are replaced. For several years, all of our electricity has been wind-generated. We celebrated the first zero-waste graduation ceremony in 2005, and we approach zero waste at other ceremonies and events. We no longer allow college funds to be spent on bottled water. And we have much more to do: We are committed to achieving 100 percent reliance on renewable energy by 2015. We still have efficiencies to pursue in our heating and lighting. The transportation and production costs of much of the food we consume are too great, and we need to increase our commitment to organic and local food. We need to redouble our efforts to partner for sus- tainability with the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, Acadia National Park and local businesses. We need to continually review our endowment portfolio and purposefully decide what roles we want to play as investors. If we are successful, it will not be because of our values or our vision for the future. It will be because of what we do. We must learn more, teach better, act more wisely, and cherish each other and this planet that is our only home. We are not here to prepare students to live in the world as it is-we are here to prepare students to shape the world in which they will live. We will meet that challenge with ideas and with action. Sr David Hales 2 COA COA BEAT COA Gets Top Marks in Student Engagement The education that College of the Atlantic offers is more challenging, interactive, dynamic, critical and supportive than that of many of the nation's top schools according to the 2006 National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE. The survey, spon- sored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is considered the most comprehensive assessment of effective practices in higher education. It includes data from 260,000 students at 523 four-year colleges and universities, including such selective institutions as Marlboro, Middlebury, Wesleyan and George Washington. This year, as in 2005, COA scored as high or higher than the top 10 percent of participating schools in nearly every category. "We have always felt that COA offers an extremely high-quality education," says Ken Hill, COA's academic dean and faculty member in education and psychology. "The NSSE survey supports our claims with empirical evidence. We directly and actively with their material through have scored at nearly the top of all assessed fieldwork, analysis or creative endeavors as very benchmarks in comparison to our peer institu- high, as was the level of basic academic challenge. tions, and we can use our responses to keep mak- Students say emphatically that they have learned ing educational improvements." to synthesize ideas and concepts from other To gather the data, COA first-year students and courses and frequently discuss ideas from read- seniors were asked detailed questions about their ings and classes with faculty members and with engagement in five essential areas: other students outside of class, thus expanding their ability to use the material they learn. Level of Academic Challenge: such as applying Another significant finding was the high quality theories to new situations. of student-faculty connections. Even first-year stu- Active and Collaborative Learning: such as dents reported feeling comfortable interacting working with others in and out of class. with faculty members. Similarly, COA soared in comparison to the other top 10 percent of schools Student-Faculty Interactions: discussions when students were asked whether they felt the with faculty and students outside classes, campus was supportive of their needs. and collaborating with faculty on research. "What fascinates me," says COA President Enriching Educational Experiences: student David Hales, "is how closely the NSSE standards diversity; internship and study abroad reflect COA's educational philosophy. We have opportunities. always engaged our students actively and collabo- ratively, using the entire college as a learning com- Supportive Campus Environment munity. Our faculty expects critical thinking. COA's basic integrative approach naturally embraces When asked about gaining critical and analytical concepts from across all disciplines. These stan- thinking skills at the college, seniors gave COA dards express the core of a COA education." one of the highest possible scores. Similarly, stu- For more information visit http://nsse.iub.edu. dents ranked COA's method of engaging students COA 3 COA BEAT Walking the Talk: COA's green path Carbon Net Zero, leftovers, safe paint In each issue of COA, we'll use this space for and sustainable floors updates on how we walk the talk. Come summer, we'll explain our carbon offset plan. Right now, we have a ~ Donna Gold few smaller items to report: The George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History has a new hemlock wood tile floor, harvested nyone who knows anything about College of the A from trees that were sustainably grown, thanks Atlantic knows about our active environmental- to a generous donation from Everett Towle, who ism. Along with members of our earliest classes manages a sustainable wood lot in Buxton, Maine. Bill Ginn, who is featured in this issue, was instrumental in getting Maine to pass its first-in-the-nation bottle bill. COA's painter, Mary Harney '96 has been busy For thirty-five years, whether it's organic food, compost- repainting the interior of Take-A-Break and Turrets. ing, safe cleaning supplies, or architecture that maxi- Ninety percent of the materials are "green," mizes energy and light, COA has walked the talk. she says, much safer for those who work in In 2004, we offset all our electricity use with windpower. the building. In 2005, we held a zero-waste graduation. We feted One more note. When I asked Jamie McGown, eight hundred people and yet produced only five COA's new faculty member in government and pounds of trash. polity, and holder of the James Russell Wiggens This October, College of the Atlantic went carbon- chair in Democracy and Polity, why he chose neutral. At this moment, students, staff and faculty are COA, he said, "leftovers." engaged in examining our greenhouse gas emissions to determine what can be reduced or avoided. All other "Leftovers?" emissions will be offset by the close of the fiscal year. "Leftovers. What other college cafeteria thinks so much about waste to offer leftovers at reduced prices? COA walks the talk." A Pledge to Tackle Global Warming College of the Atlantic has resolved to fully miti- gate its future effect on climate change by reduc- "We'll be the first carbon-neutral ing use of fossil fuels and offsetting any carbon campus on the planet" ~ David Malakoff '86 emissions with investments in renewable energy. College officials say the policy is the first of its by Paul D. Thacker, reporter Inside Higher Ed kind for an institution of higher education. adapted and reprinted courtesy of "Being a big institution may have advantages, insidehighered.com but moving quickly to address major social and environmental challenges isn't always one of Some institutions commit to hiring celebrity facul- them," said David Malakoff, who graduated from ty and some to building winning sports teams, but the college in 1986 and is science correspondent a small college in Bar Harbor, Maine is doing its for National Public Radio. "So, we may not have a best to slow global warming. With help from its football team and a marching band, but we'll be students, all of whom major in human ecology, the first carbon-neutral campus on the planet." 4 COA "College of the Atlantic's net-zero carbon emis- sions plan is scientifically sound, simple to under- stand and straightforward to implement," said Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in a news release released by the college. The college's president, David Hales, said that the commitment will serve as a model for other institutions to follow, but also as a learning tool for its fewer than 300 students. "Students will be get- ting firsthand, real world experience handling finances, and the educational value of this type of experience is just tremendous," he said. Hales recently took over as president of College of the Atlantic and his first request to the trustees was to achieve 100 percent reliance on renewable energy by 2015. "I am hopeful that other adminis- trators can see that this is not that complex or expensive," he said. "Once they understand that, we'll see others come along." In fact, much of the groundwork for creating the new policy was laid before Hales arrived. For the last year, a senior, John Deans, has been work- ing to figure out how much carbon College of the Atlantic emits into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned to create the electricity it uses. Photo by Noreen Hogan '91 The job was not easy and Deans says he is still fid- dling with the numbers, but he has determined that the college's annual consumption is 1 million Deans, a member of his campus's SustainUS kilowatt hours. He then partnered with a nonprof- affiliate, hopes that students elsewhere will lobby it group, Clean Air-Cool Planet, to calculate the their administrators to enact their own carbon amount of greenhouse gases emitted to create neutral programs. that much electricity. Hales added that the American Council on The college is working hard to lower its own Renewable Energy has formed a higher education electricity consumption, but emissions are a glob- committee that is setting two goals for universities al, not a local, problem, so they can be "offset" by and colleges by 2010. First, it wants 100 institutions lowering emissions elsewhere. In this case, the to begin investing 10 percent of their endowments college decided to lower greenhouse gases by into funds that support renewable energy. paying for windmills that are generating electricity Second, the group is asking these same universi- in South Dakota. This pays for the costs of carbon ties to ensure that they purchase only renewable pollution by the college and also helps spur the energy by the same date. market in renewable energy. Noting that students are becoming more aware "None of this stuff is perfect, but it does push of the potential costs from climate change and the the market in the right direction," said Deans. The need to change patterns of energy use, Hales college expects to spend no more than $30,000 a added, "This will have not only an educational pur- year for the offset program. pose but will also save all of us more money in the Deans said that College of the Atlantic is now long run." emissions-neutral for its electricity use, and that the next step is to examine other fossil fuel con- sumption such as the gasoline that staff and facul- Read the original article at: ty members and students use to travel to campus. http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/11/greer COA 5 INAUGURAL TALK The NASCAR Hybrid Re-invigorating the environmental movement Excerpted from the talk given at the inauguration of David Hales, October 8, 2006. By Frank E. Loy I want to talk about a cartoon. A New Yorker car- toon. It shows two men sitting in a restaurant. One says to the other, "I'm rather fortunate. I have no parents, so Medicare is no problem, and I have no © The New Yorker Collection 1995 J.B. Handelsman from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. children, so the environment is no problem." It nicely captures a paradox I want to talk about Handelsman today. "I'm rather fortunate. I have no parents, so Medicare is no problem, For millions of Americans, the issue of the envi- and I have no children, so the environment is no problem." ronment, of our relationship to the planet we in- habit, is central to our thinking. It shapes our per- Let's tackle this by posing three questions: sonal and political behavior and is absolutely vital 1. What do we know about America's views on to our common future. the environment? These Americans have built an impressive movement in the last thirty-five years. The many 2. Why has it been so hard for the environmen- environmental organizations are stronger than tal community to be more persuasive? ever, and we as a nation have accomplished a great 3. What can we do? deal. And yet-and this is the paradox-as the move- The Facts: There are plenty of surveys that show ment has grown stronger and cleaned up rivers that Americans care about the environment. But and the air in many of our communities, we find there is equally plentiful evidence that the issue that globally we are falling backwards. When we does not rate high on their priority list. Last May, compare how much we need to do just to stay The Gallup Organization conducted a poll in even environmentally with what we actually are which it asked Americans what they thought were doing-our progress is totally inadequate. The the most important problems facing the country adverse health impact of toxics in our society is today. The environment ranked twenty-third. growing; we're losing species every day; our cli- mate is changing irreversibly. How can this be? Several reasons come to mind: How come? Because we don't have the political We are victims of our own success. The en- will. And why? Because we have been quite unable vironmental goals, say, of Earth Day 1970, have to bring the bulk of Americans to our way of think- been perceived as achieved. ing. For them, the environment is far down the list of what's important; it shapes neither their person- While the environment is viewed as relevant, al nor their political behavior. it is not seen as an immediate problem. Air Quite frankly, it seems more important on this pollution that causes asthma cannot be seen; occasion to ask why this is, than to discuss any the mess in Iraq is on the tube every night. specific environmental challenge-for if we can't Voters believe there are negative impacts understand better why this division in America from progressive environmental policy, that exists, and what to do about it, we as a nation are stronger standards might raise taxes, cost jobs doomed to make totally inadequate progress. and increase governmental interference with- out noticeably improving our lives. 6 COA The environmental agenda is bewilderingly diffuse, with multiple priorities. A well-financed, active anti-environmental movement has ensured that for millions of Americans the very term environment is locked in a permanent embrace with the term extreme. Take the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which says, "CO2. They call it pollu- tion. We call it life." Finally, even among voters who express con- cern about the environment there is no agree- ment on what the problem is or what should be done about it. That makes crafting a mes- sage about the environment very tricky. What do we do? We need to dig into the beliefs of Americans more deeply than just looking at their attitudes on toxic wastes or on global warming. David Hales hands Frank Loy a stone from Mount Desert Island. We need to identify what Americans care about most deeply-something we sometimes call the hybrid? It doesn't even go all that fast." And values. And in our messages we need to respond Joe would respond to the 75,000 fans, "Because - to those values. This requires research, messag- am a patriotic American. This country simply has ing that stems from that research, new messen- got to use more efficient cars so that we won't gers, and innovative marketing-much as you have to import so much oil." would market a brand of athletic shoes. (See www.ecoAmerica.net.) I like the sound of it. Americans care about Prosperity, Health, National Security and-America. The latter mean- My challenge to you, to David Hales, and to the ing Patriotism, Morality and Culture. That is a whole College of the Atlantic community is: make damn good list. What we have failed to do is to a difference that will be meaningful to the man in make the case that good environmental policy will the New Yorker cartoon. I bet that there are good deliver each and every one of these values. values deep within that apparently lazy, indiffer- Go to an anti-environmental website; they talk ent and selfish guy. The task of human ecologists is values-the values I just mentioned. Environ- to find those values and build an environmental mentalists talk issues. ethic on them. It's not an easy challenge. But a What to do? A group of us recently asked our- grand one. selves how to go about tapping into patriotism. Could we get the spectators at a NASCAR race to drop what we perceived to be their indifference, even hostility, to climate change? That would be Frank Loy has had an extensive career in international affairs, business and the non-governmental sector. He served as a coup. What if an American car manufacturer- Under Secretary for Global Affairs under President Clinton, say, Ford-were to sponsor some NASCAR- and also held State Department positions under presidents sanctioned races. But only by hybrids. We pictured Carter and Johnson. Loy was senior vice president of Pan American Airways, a founding partner of the firm that rescued the winning driver stepping out of his hybrid in Penn Central from bankruptcy, president of the German his yellow driving suit, advertising patches all Marshall Fund of the U.S. and has chaired many environmental organizations. He holds an LLB from Harvard. over. The TV commentator comes over and says: "Congratulations, Joe. Great race. But tell me, why COA 7 COA Students Help Secure Global Youth Movement Nairobi climate change conference marks new youth acceptance COA's youth delegation to COP 12 in Nairobi: Alexander Fletcher '07, Sarah Neilson '09, Matthew Mclnnis '09, Virginie Lavallee-Picard '07, Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07, Michael Kersula '09 and John Deans '07, wear the t-shirts they created for the journey. The logo refers to the typical practice at international negotiations of bracketing language that is not yet agreed upon. In bracketing the globe, the stu- dents are saying that the future of Earth is still under negotiation. The seven College of the Atlantic students who what we've been able to do at COA their jaws attended the United Nations Framework Conven- dropped-COA allowed you to focus on this?" tion on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol More importantly, the students found they negotiations found that preparation pays off. were taken seriously. "At last year's meetings, Though undergraduates, these students say they members of the youth delegation had to keep were heard, even courted, by the international calling to try to get just one meeting with the U.S. officials in attendance. State Department," said Juan Pablo Hoffmaister The students had spent the fall term entirely '07 of Costa Rica. "This time, the youth had a meet- focused on the convention, taking a class in cli- ing within days, and I was given the cell phone mate chemistry with Don Cass, another in Global number of the State Department's logistics co- Environmental Politics with Doreen Stabinsky, ordinator to make sure everything went smoothly. while also working independently to read the We were able to meet with every minister, political international protocols to be discussed at the advisor, and UN official that we wanted to-and negotiations. they were interested in what we had to say." "It made an incredible difference," said John While official policy changes lagged, the global Deans '07. Knowing the issues, knowing each youth movement tightened. "We're now gaining other, the COA students-all members of the a full grasp of the total process," said Hoffmaister. youth environmental group SustainUS-were able As one of fourteen elected youth representatives to effectively assist other youth. In part because to the United Nations Environment Programme of their work, the hundred international youth from across the globe, Hoffmaister has attended delegates, hailing from more than a dozen nations many such conferences. "At any meeting that any in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, were minister attended, they could look around the able to issue swift responses to decisions made room and see the face of the future." by international leaders and craft daily policy And youth have a powerful message, added statements. Deans. "Just by meeting with us, the heads of "Eight weeks prior to the conference, I didn't delegations are forced to confront the impact of even know the vocabulary," recalled Deans, who climate change. The more we can do it, and the hails from Topsham, Maine. "When we landed in more regular we can make those meetings, the Nairobi, I could read the reports and understand more our face-the face of the next generation- what was going on. When other students saw can affect the process. After all, it's our future that they are negotiating." 8 COA What We See: Report from COP12 By Sarah Neilson '09, Youth Delegate Global environmental politics. This concept seems to exist in a completely different sphere in the "real world" than in a classroom. I am sitting at a table under a tent at the Gigiri Complex of the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, surrounded by trees with purple flowers and plants whose names I don't know. Delegates in suits, guards in uni- forms with guns in their holsters wander the com- plex. Dark hands wipe this morning's rain off the stairs to the courtyard as high heels and shiny NUSSIN loafers hurry by. I am here with six of my class- mates and hundreds of other youth and govern- ment delegates because of the 12th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international governments of the United Nations' attempt to reach some kind of agreement for action on the adverse impacts from onging climate change. But what are we really doing? When we meet each other's eyes, what do we see, what do we feel, what judgments do we make? Because really, we're all people who are a little lost in different ways and it is people who make these things-who make up Sarah Neilson and fellow youth delegate Josh pause for a coffee break during the Conference of Youth, held just before conferences, documents, ad-hoc working groups. the UN Framework Convention. Sure, there are veto states, geographical and polit- ical coalitions, but what happens between people environment? This is the environment. Politics? I when they look each other in the eyes? Who is this don't see politics in the purple trees, the red mud, diplomat, this elegantly-suited person, this person the pots. The politics are here, I know, but what is cleaning hallways and stairs? What does he repre- most immediate is survival, which comes down to sent? What are her beliefs about climate change care-for each other, for where we live. We don't and climate change action? Where does she live? always show care and sometimes one has to Does he have children? Who do I seem to be to choose what one cares most about. I care about them? How does one get from people talking to excess trash impacting people's quality of life, but politics? What is it about politics that changes rela- I can't drink the water because I might get sick tionships? from it. So I drink Dasani. And then I throw away Opening day; not much is happening. People the bottle. And it stays in this country. That's glob- are talking, adopting agendas, giving presenta- al environmental politics. tions about deforestation, drinking bottled water But global environmental people-all of us who and hoping not to get sick. Cleaning stairs. live on this earth-we turn to each other and smile Justice seems so important and yet so unreach- or frown, we hug each other and talk-or we don't. able. From our matatu, the minibus that serves as And because everything is connected, the earth is the primary form of transportation in Kenya, I have affected. Not to mention the billions of other rela- seen slums and villas, beautiful trees, beat-up cars, tionships that make up this breathing, wild life. So roads that can hardly be classified as such, hun- dreds of walkers, brightly painted pottery. The Continued on page 11 COA 9 Sea Urchins, Cancer and Human Ecology An alum finds his way into Science via the sea urchin genome By Helen Hess, faculty member in invertebrate zoology and biomechanics About the size of a plum, and only a bit more active, the purple sea urchin seems unlikely to arrest attention or even inspire casual interest. Using its five little teeth, this unassuming marine invertebrate can be found grazing on kelp from Alaska to Mexico. Yet a sea urchin's genome con- tains information that can give insights into sub- jects as diverse as cancer, genetic disease, devel- opmental biology and the evolutionary history of life on Earth. The sequenced genome of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has far-reaching implications and applications, worthy of a broad Seth Carbonneau '05 in Dr. A. Thomas Look's lab at the Dana- audience. Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Photo by colleague Rima Thanks to the work of COA graduate Seth Kulkarni. Carbonneau '05-along with some 228 other researchers-S purpuratus has now gotten the structures in human embryos can also be found in attention it deserves. Carbonneau was an author the urchin genome. Furthermore, it's not just birth on a paper published in the November 10, 2006 defects that result from the malfunction of devel- issue of Science magazine, a premier journal for opmental genes; scientists are now discovering communicating results of important scientific that diseases such as Huntington's disease and research. The paper, "The Genome of the Sea muscular dystrophy, that don't appear until late in Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus," reported life, can be traced to problems in these genes. The that the purple sea urchin has joined the select Science paper adds to the surprise, reporting that group of species, including our own, whose entire urchins also share versions of the very same genes genome has been sequenced. A publication in that can lead to human disease. Science is quite a feather in Carbonneau's cap, Carbonneau became involved in the genome- even if he shares it with dozens of coauthors. sequencing project while working in Jim Sequencing and interpreting the 23,300 genes was Coffman's lab at Mount Desert Biological a massive project, involving collaborators from Laboratories after graduation. He had already over seventy institutions worldwide. taken a course in Molecular Biology Research One very startling pattern revealed by sequenc- Techniques at MDIBL, part of the INBRE program ing the genomes of diverse organisms is that bringing biomedical research to COA. species as different as humans and flies share sim- Carbonneau is modest about his role in the ilar versions of many of the same genes. The sequencing effort but pleased to find that what he bulging, compound eyes of a fly are morphologi- considers minor contributions earned him a place cally quite distinct from the mobile and expressive among the listed authors. He felt more involved eyes of mammals, yet very similar genes, derived in other research projects in the Coffman lab, from an ancient common ancestor living more which studies sea urchin development. The than 500 million years ago, orchestrate their devel- process by which a fertilized egg-one single opment in the embryo of each. Urchins look even cell-becomes an embryo composed of many cells less like humans than do flies; urchins have no and many different kinds of cells, is a complex heads, no legs, no eyes, nor ears. Nonetheless, choreography ultimately controlled by genes. The genes that regulate the development of these genes explored by the Coffman lab are essential to 10 COA development; in addition to regulating the devel- text of the entire genome and understanding opment of an embryo, they are also responsible development in the context of the entire embryo for various diseases and cancers when they don't can yield insights into disease treatments. As function properly. Says Carbonneau of Coffman, unlikely as it seems, sequencing the sea urchin "Jim considers cancer a developmental biology genome contributes to finding cures for cancer. problem to be solved." Carbonneau's senior project on invasive fire ant Carbonneau is now at the Dana-Farber Cancer colonies' patterns of aggression gave him experi- Institute, in the lab of Dr. A. Thomas Look, working ence couching ecological questions in evolution- on genes that are important in embryonic devel- ary terms and working with tiny organisms. The opment but that also have been linked to cancer. research that Carbonneau has been doing more Instead of urchins, the organism is the zebrafish, recently involves even tinier organisms in a whose transparent embryonic circulatory system remarkable evolutionary context with its unsus- makes it ideal for investigating pediatric leukemia. pected connections to human disease. He finds There is a relationship between genes that regu- the work exciting, but looks forward to getting late embryonic development and the incidence of back to ant research-working outdoors and with- certain cancers. Understanding genes in the con- out a microscope. What We See: Report from COP12 Continued from page 9 we sit and try to make documents, review actions and plans, because we care about each other, our lands, our health, our image. But it seems there is not enough care to go around. Mother Theresa said that if there is no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. It seems to me that peace and health-environmental health and reciprocal human health-are inextricable Noble laureate Wangari Mathaai of the Green Belt Movement from one another; that the society we live in- meets with COA students and other COP12 youth delegates. dependent on motors for transport, on markets While governments seem overly concerned for wealth-is one in which we all keep forgetting. with bottom lines that seem to have more to do The United Nations Framework Convention on with economic and political interests than human Climate Change, while an attempt to remember, is and environmental ones, these people are taking also an effort to appease the forgetful by creating time now to care for one another. Outside confer- lax standards and market incentives to help miti- ence room walls, away from the classroom and gate the harmful effects of many human behaviors from theoretical textbooks, people are people, (especially those of the wealthiest industrialized with values and ideas. When it comes down to it, nations). I am sometimes angry about what I con- we can only really look each other in the eyes and sider to be a weak process, sometimes sad, some- see what we see. times hopeful that people often do remember that we belong to each other, like the people at a chil- dren's home I visited who offer a relatively safe COA sophomore Sarah Neilson participated in the youth place for street orphans, teaching them to grow actions at the UNFCC COP in Montreal in November 2005 and subsequently attended several climate change summits and their own food despite the minimal facilities, or conferences. The people she met on a post-COP12 journey the people of Wangari Mathaai's Greenbelt through Kenya changed her perspective on politics and life. Movement planting trees throughout Kenya; these Sarah plans to focus her studies on social and community issues and hopes to return to Kenya. people are the true source of change and hope. COA 11 Society for Human Ecology An Extraordinary Exhibition of World-Class Human Ecology by Gene Myers ('80-81), SHE president-elect I could feel the anticipation searchers on the ecological foot- sweeping through campus. It was print of nations. As usual, there was the fall of 2006, and the Society for a packed agenda of sessions, Human Ecology Conference was residence on sabbatical from TC roundtables, and plenary speakers. coming to COA. As a scholar-in- But in other ways, this was a landmark event. The SHE board, Western Washington University's Executive Director Rich Borden, Huxley College of the Environ- President John Anderson, staff ment, I watched the conference Barbara Carter and Sean Berg '08, become a climactic occasion, grip- and COA itself pulled out all the ping the current generation of stu- stops. The keynote speakers includ- dents along with the many visiting scholars. And ed some very high-powered ecological lumin- for a month afterwards, the glow remained, with aries such as William McDonough, Richard Levins students and faculty unable to stop discussing the and Robert Kates. There was a lobster mega- conference's multifaceted issues. dinner; John Cooper composed original music, This was not unlike other SHE conferences I've which he performed alongside COA students. attended. For a fairly small organization, these Most remarkably, being the chthonic musical gatherings attract an exceptionally international instrument of Human Ecology that it is, the college set of people. I was at sessions with many partici- was played- it hummed; it resonated in such per- pants from Europe and South America; indeed, fect melody and harmony to the intellectual vibes there were representatives from all continents of the gathering, leaving no doubt that COA is one except Antarctica at the conference. SHE's diversi- of the pre-eminent centers of human ecology. ty extends to how its members define human ecol- This was not lost on the students, who were ogy as well, with several schools of thought and treated to an extraordinary exhibition of world- interest areas represented, from the Cornell con- class human ecology. The response was palpable. ception that grew out of home economics, to pol- All classes were cancelled, and large numbers of icy activists, to community resource management students participated. First-year students, all of practitioners and scholars, to cutting-edge re- whom were enrolled in the Human Ecology core 12 COA What does human ecology course, found multiple points mean to you? were prominent at every turn. of connection with conference For students, this meant see- scholars and practitioners. ing their teachers in a new, My Ocean Ghoul? Holy Emu Can Go? What a way to start out college! esteemed, professional light. Read McDonough's Cradle One dark night in the depths of a Maine Faculty pulled the students to Cradle, then hear fresh in- winter, a lone COA professor, in search of right up to the same table formation from the author the deeper meanings of Human Ecology, as colleagues. Student voices himself, then ask questions plugged our one major into an anagram were heard everywhere, in- like, "What did the Bush generator and found cluding at the sessions on New Cabinet say after they heard Holy Ocean Mug My Canoe Ghoul Directions in Human Ecology the same speech?" Answer: Huge Clay Moon Much Lone Yoga Education, where discussion "Now that, gentlemen, was a Holy Emu Can Go Moon Gauchely took a process/content direc- good dose of common sense!" Meanly Go Ouch Each Ugly Moon tion. How appropriate! After Harvard's Richard Levins I saw student involvement spoke, students and attendees convened with up close in the four sessions I organized on con- Levins and David Feldman, COA faculty member in servation psychology. Two focused on the human physics and math, to discuss the math behind relation to nature, and two were more applied, dynamic systems. Everyone TAB'd together, mak- probing "Getting psychology right for sustaina- ing for even more personal contact. Rich Borden bility." We heard from colleagues measuring said it was one of the most electric SHE confer- people's unconscious associations of self and ences he had witnessed. nature, and from others triangulating our moral A lot of action happened in the themes that ran responses to nature by looking at how people through the conference. Interested in the deter- regard robotic pets! We heard about applying minants of the dimensions and scale of ecological conservation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, footprint of nations? Attend the several paper ses- and about automaticity versus "mindfulness" in sions on Structural Human Ecology. Have a Down behavior change. SHE has become an important East marine resource side? Experts shared results meeting ground for our effort to "green" psych- in aquatic and fisheries issues-and first-year stu- ology and apply it. As elsewhere, we saw a surge of dents were ready, having read Kurlansky's Cod: A interest from students whose minds have a psy- Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. chological bent but whose passions connect to COA's recent conversation on green business was ecology. After the conference was over, I con- carried forward in at least four sessions, including tinued to meet with a handful of students who "The Compatibility of Financial Goals and a Green wanted to extend the conversation, a tremendous Business Environment" (co-chaired by alum, pleasure for me. current faculty member and former trustee Jay At the end of the conference, I was chosen as McNally '84), and "Green Communities: Business president-elect. In 2009, the SHE Conference will and Economics I and II." Also available were land be at Western Washington University. As an and wildlife law, wildfire, GIS, sustainability sci- exchange student in 1980-81, I may be the closest ence, a series of three sessions on education, and to a COA alum to hold this office, and as such, I three or four on philosophy. There were sessions encourage all alumni to invite their professional on music (performed live) and the arts, as well as comrades to make use of the SHE conferences and history, forestry, climate change, community, networks. COA's SHE bonanza set a high water health, agro-ecology. The conference agenda read mark as I begin thinking of 2009. like a COA catalog! Continuing education at its best for folk like me. And COA faculty members COA 13 DONOR PROFILE MAKING SURE COA IS THERE FOR OTHERS By Donna Gold efore Elena Tuhy '90 argued a case in front of the Supreme B Court of Ohio, before she became a prosecutor and then a defense attorney, before she went to law school, Tuhy worked at College of the Atlantic. In 1990, just as Tuhy was graduating, public affairs director Carolyn Dow left the college to focus on her art. Tuhy, who had been a work-study student under Dow while at COA, was asked to take over. "It was the most pressure I have ever felt; much more than being a lawyer," Tuhy recalls. "I loved the college so much, and it was my job to tell the world how great it was and what amazing things the students, teachers and staff were doing. I felt like the weight of the college was on my shoulders." Tuhy later studied law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and served as an assistant law director in Licking Elena Tuhy '90 County in central Ohio. She is now in private practice. Alumna donor Despite her many other experiences and allegiances, Tuhy contin- ues to feel responsible for COA. Each year since her 1990 graduation, Tuhy has donated to the annual fund. During the leaner loan-repay- ment days, the gifts were smaller, but they have increased over the years. Tuhy is a tither; each year she tries to give one-tenth of her income to non-profit organizations that are meaningful to her. COA is high on that list. "It just makes sense," Tuhy says. "Someone had given money so that the college was there for me. I want to be sure that it is there for others." Tuhy's enthusiasm for the college permeated her experience at COA. It was so contagious that she helped bring about one of the greatest media coups the college had realized: a column in The Washington Post by Colman McCarthy, who had stopped by the Public Affairs Office one afternoon during Tuhy's first summer on the job. Recalls Rich Borden, "I will never forget the pure excitement Elena had when Colman McCarthy wrote a rave review of COA in The Washington Post. She made it happen. It was a bases-loaded home run!" But for Tuhy, whatever she said was simple fact. "I had an amazing time at COA. I loved the community. I loved walking across campus, saying hello to others, knowing that even if I didn't know them then, I probably would, eventually. It was all so incredible: the passion of the students, the enthusiasm of the teachers. It was at COA that I really learned that what each of us does has an impact on the entire world." 14 COA Alice Eno 1923-2007 COA TRIBUTE Force of Nature By John Anderson, faculty member in zoology and behavioral ecology It is not often that one gets to meet a Force of Nature, but for twenty Alice Eno Field Research Station College of the Atlantic years Alice Eno has been here, encourag- Her love for Maine's waters and wildlife will ing me, inspiring me, making me laugh, inspire all who study It Great Duck Island. making me crazy-always bringing out the best in those around her. I first met Alice back in the days when we were working on terns with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Alice would come roaring out to Petit Manan in her boat Clam City Express. One summer, for some reason, we always found our- selves setting the table for six, when there were only five on the bird team. We started making Alice Eno stands in front of the Alice Eno Research Station on jokes about the "ghostly sixth person." On a par- Great Duck Island. ticularly wet and windy day we were all indoors huddled around the stove. Alice had said that she The Alice Eno Field Station is more than just was coming to visit, but it was blowing half a gale another branch campus for College of the and nobody would be headed our way, we were Atlantic; it is a labor of love by a remarkable sure. Suddenly, the door burst open upon a vision woman and home to a generation of fledgling of pink and Alice bounded into the room "Ah field biologists who go to sleep at night to the called and called, you ahnt listening to your chuckle of petrels and rise to a new day among radio," she complained in the delightful Texas the gulls and pounding surf. Without Alice, I drawl that resisted forty years of Princeton refine- doubt that there would ever have been a bird proj- ment. Alice had rowed herself in through the surf ect, no Eno Station. with beer, wine and cookies for stranded bird biol- Alice believed in College of the Atlantic, in the ogists. The "ghostly sixth" had come calling! teaching of young people about the glories of Alice adopted the college's seabird program. boats and islands and, yes, in puffins, in a way that Her particular loves had always been puffins and puts me to shame. Even when she was sick she had bald eagles, and it was only fitting that the first no time for her illness, she wanted to hear about puffin to fledge on Petit Manan was called Alice. students, classes, teaching, projects, next season. The darn birds seemed to follow her: we had our Just before Thanksgiving, last year's interns and first puffin chick on Great Duck in sight of Eno I went to visit her in Falmouth. Riding back, Virve Station last summer. Alice was always very polite Hirsmaki '09 said, "John, knowing Alice makes about other birds, and passionately interested in growing old all right." Yes, exactly. May we all every student project done at the station, but I come at life with the same gusto that Alice has know she had a hankering for puffins; I am glad shown us. A Force of Nature indeed. that they have chosen to oblige. COA 15 What Do We Need Ann Peach: Ed came and interviewed me at my kitchen table up on Shannon Road where I lived and on January 2, I think it was, 1970, we went to to Start a College? work. We started in what is now "Peach House." It was a caretaker's cottage: had no heat, no phone, no furnishings. I took a card table, my typewriter Excerpts from an interview with Ann Peach and a folding chair and Les Brewer brought anoth- er chair and we sat down with a yellow pad and Interviewed by Donna Gold said, "What do we need to start a college?" The first thing we needed was a coffee pot. That was first on our list. Then we sat there looking at each other. Donna Gold: What was it that led you to want to do this work? AP: It was fun. It was a challenge, there were lots of times that you never knew where your next nickel was coming from and I got very good at handling people that we owed money to. DG: Oh dear, what was that like? AP: Ed always said that the reason I bought sup- plies from California was because I knew exactly how long it took for that check to go to California and come back and clear my bank before I had to make sure I had funds for it. That was almost true. Photo by Noreen Hogan '91 DG: So did this make you very anxious? AP: No, it was more of a challenge. And I had lots of faith in Ed. I would go to him and say, "Look, I've got a payroll coming up next month and I need ten thousand dollars." And he would say, "Don't worry, I'll get the money." Sometimes he got it and some- Ann Peach had three young children in August, times he didn't. 1969, when she read a Bar Harbor Times article about the idea of starting a college on the island. DG: And when he didn't? She'd worked with founding trustee Les Brewer before-they belonged to the same church. That AP: We delayed. We never missed payroll, but we often delayed it. I would figure out how much very next Sunday, Ann Peach offered her services. money I had and I would go to the bank and pick She intended only to volunteer a bit, but when Ed up checks for the secretaries, the maintenance Kaelber came on as the college's first president, people-the people who really lived from pay- he convinced her to stay on as COA's first staff check to paycheck. I would pick up as many of member. Four presidents and twenty-five years those checks as I had money to cover-the bank later, in 1994, Ann Peach retired from her final posi- let me do this. I might pick up a check for a facul- tion, running the business office. ty member, who would split the check with some other faculty member who had a mortgage pay- ment due or something they had to have. This is one of the great things about the college. We all shared. Ed and I were the last ones to pick up our checks. 16 COA DG: So, were you in charge of budgeting? So when I locked up to go home that Friday night before the fire, I put it in the safe. AP: Yes. Not that it did a whole lot of good! Presumably we would set a budget and everyone DG: Tell me about the fire. would follow it-except when they needed more money and forgot to let me know that they did. AP: I remember Steve Katona coming out with his The ongoing joke around campus was that I arms loaded with stuff from the section of the hated boats-and I did hate boats. They are so building that hadn't started burning, but it started expensive. And of course, the faculty wanted right behind my office. As soon as they had done boats. Every time you turned around, someone all they could, Judy [Swazey], Millard and maybe was donating a boat, or they wanted to buy a boat, Rich and-oh there were probably a half a dozen so the joke was, "see if we can get a boat on cam- of us-went down to West Street to Judy's house pus without Ann knowing about it!" and started making plans for what needed to be done next. My job was to get the DG: I've heard that people would "We put the $30 in telephone communications back come to you and say, "I need to be and get the office running again. paid, I need sixty dollars to buy the peanut butter jar We all had our chores. food, I have children at home." And you would say, "Can you take DG: That very day? forty?" Did that actually happen? and students, faculty, AP: Before lunch even. This was in AP: That's true. And then there was whoever, could July. We had a month before we the peanut butter jar. Have you had students coming in. heard about the peanut butter jar? borrow money, write DG: Do you remember how you DG: Yes, but not from you- their name on a slip felt when you saw the fire? AP: I shared an office with Bunnie AP: I was probably too stunned to Clark and people would come to and pay when they really have any reaction, because it our office for coffee. I really could- seemed perfectly natural to me n't afford to furnish coffee on my had the money." that we should sit around Judy's $400 a month, so I said, "It's going table and discuss how we were to be a quarter a cup, flat rate, no IOUs." At the going to repair this problem. It was another chal- end of that first summer we had twenty, thirty lenge, really, and that did not seem out of the ordi- bucks that we had made on our coffee. One of us nary to me at all. said, "Let's just put this away and the next time a student wants some money, we'll pay out of this DG: Another challenge? fund first." Prior to that, whenever a student came to us for five dollars to take their dog to the vet or AP: Yes, it was another challenge and I think that buy a book, we would lend them money out of our probably most of us viewed it that way. It was not own pockets because the college had no money. nearly as devastating as the loss of Dick Davis So I took a peanut butter jar to work and we put (faculty member in philosophy who died in 1982). the thirty dollars in the jar and students, faculty, Not nearly. He was just such a great resource to go whoever, could borrow money, write their name to when you needed someone to talk to or some- on a slip and pay when they had the money. There one to help you through a problem. I felt it like a was one kid who borrowed one hundred dollars personal loss and I'm sure that a lot of other peo- and never gave it back-as far as I know-but ple felt the same way. that's the only one. By the time we got done, we had a couple of DG: I'm sure you're right. Anything else you thousand dollars in that jar and it survived the fire, would like to say about the college? because while we kept it out on the desk so that AP: I hope it lasts for a million years. It's certainly kids could borrow from it whether we were in the been one of the greatest experiences of my life. I office or not, on Friday nights, I put it in the safe. loved every minute of it. COA 17 winter ecology; Excerpts from a field journal By Rowen Gorman '07 Photographs by Stephen Ressel, faculty member in vertebrate zoology. 18 COA In high latitudes and altitudes, up to nine months of each year can be spent locked in winter. Biologist Stephen Ressel's course, Winter Ecology, focuses on the unique adaptations of wintering in the north through field trips and journal entries detailing the changes students notice. Writer, artist and scientist Rowen Gorman '07, took the class in the winter of 2006 and shares her perceptions and poetry in these excerpts from her field journal. tracks&cracks JANUARY 7, DUSK COLD, CLEAR ALEXANDRA '77 AND GARRETT '78 CONOVER'S, WILLIMANTIC, ME Here, just a few hours inland, winter is a reality rather than a shadow. Ice encroaches on the river and snow carpets the ground revealing a map of animal activity printed across the clean slate. Tracks are not merely identifiers; they are stories. If you are literate in the language of the animal's patterns of movement, the prints come alive. A line of coyote tracks crosses the trail as I walk towards the river. I step off the trampled path and follow the coyote's lead, threading through trees and under toppled logs. My tall stature and uneven gait feel awkward and ungainly as I struggle to negotiate around the features in the landscape that posed no obstacle for the coyote, its path straight and unwavering. Paralleling the thread of prints I continue through the open-canopy forest, pausing to examine particularly clear prints, changes in gait where the coyote descends a steep slope, and the potentially lethal intersections of mice and deer. The pursuit is addictive, the story continually unfolding, leading me endlessly onward. It is dusk, but my curiosity makes it difficult to abandon the coyote. Just a little further, just a few more minutes. At last I agree to go my separate way. Getting my bearings, I set off with less confidence and directness than the coyote, my footprints a wavering chain behind me. How do animals find their bearings so successfully? Refined sense of smell? Familiarity? COA 19 Twilight is quickly settling. Sitting on the periphery of the woods, I hear trees cracking as soon as the sun slips out of sight. The sound is intermittent but recurring. Why do trees crack at dusk? Reading through articles, I find that in the afternoon, the earth's surface begins cooling off (releasing more heat than it is gaining in solar radiation). Though the lowest temperature isn't reached until just before dawn, the most extreme drop occurs just at sundown. I have several hypothe- ses. One is that the trees are not cracking due to the cold but due to the quick change in temperature, which probably creates a temperature gradient between the inner and outer tree, or different portions of the tree. As the wood cools it restricts; if areas of the tree cool at different rates (the outside most quickly), the un-uniform shrinking would cause the tree to crack. But I only hear the popping sound on cold nights. Perhaps this is because the temperature gradient is larger, or the sun has a more criti- cal influence and its disappearance is strongly felt. Or perhaps the trees are not cracking because of uneven stress but because of universal ten- sion. If the trees are very cold the sound may be simultaneous freezing, causing the wood to pull apart and snap, analogous to the sound made when ice forms on fresh water. JANUARY 12, LATE MORNING WARM, CLEAR GREAT HILL, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND Last night's rain erased all traces of snow: rapid melt-metamorphosis due to the energy transferred from penetrating raindrops. The ground is saturated with snowmelt and rain, all dips brimming with standing water. The forest floor is damp and bare beneath the trees. Last autumn's fallen leaves are packed from the earlier snow pack. Ice Shattered crystal catches my eye refracted light spattered in the midst of dull debris a splintered oasis of January surrounded by premature April sought out, rushed to knee-down discovery That the sun's hot breath left only a broken bottle immune to melt and thaw. 20 COA more than skin deep The penetrating implications of bark surface FEBRUARY 5, MORNING RAINY BERND HEINRICH'S CABIN, WILTON, ME To the inattentive eye, winter trees appear homogenous. In the spring, flowers flag stems and twigs; in summer, lush leaves provide differenti- ation, and in the fall, species are highlighted with distinct colors. One of the wonderful aspects of winter is the necessary attention to subtle- ty. Winter dictates a different way of seeing, an observational shift: the pattern of branching, the scales of the leaf buds, the texture of the bark. Bark serves as an initial key to identification, though more difficult with older, gnarled specimens. And some species encourage this approach more than others: the long, vertical, x-ing bark of ash is easi- ly identified, as is the unique blanch of white birch. But what deter- mines these divergent appearances of bark? What are the implications for the tree of the different surfaces-light versus dark, smooth versus rough? Some of the difference is evident in taking temperature read- ings of various trunks. Light-colored maple bark measured 14° C while the dark bark of a white pine was only 9° C; data that undermines the theory of dark bark absorbing heat and light bark reflecting it. What else varies between these trees that could account for this? Texture. Bernd Heinrich argues that the baffled surface of many dark trees, such as white pine, creates more surface area and air turbulence, thus dissi- pating heat like a radiator to cool the trunk. Two trees with relatively equal reflectivity values (coloration) but different textures still pro- duced a clear temperature difference; smooth bark at 11.4° C and rough at 9.2° C. This leads to the conclusion that the temperature dif- ference is dependent more on texture than hue. These temperatures only represent the outside of the bark; in the interior, the relationship is reversed. In the trees sampled, the interior of the smooth bark was 9.5° C and beneath the baffled bark was 10.5° C. Thus, baffling might cool the surface but allow heat to penetrate into the interior of the tree. The smooth bark absorbs more heat at the periphery of the tree but maintains a cooler temperature on the inside. Both interior temperature readings are cooler than the exteriors; this seems contrary to reason. Is this an effect of the unusually warm air temperature today? How would the relationship of these temperatures shift in very cold weather? COA 21 windscapes FEBRUARY 6, LATE AFTERNOON SETTING SUNLIGHT, VERY WINDY, COLD CHAMPLAIN MOUNTAIN Ascending the westward face of Champlain I am washed in low, long rays of gold and scoured by sharp wind. Traversing stretches of bare granite, I feel the wind nipping my fingertips curled inside my mittens. The contrast felt in the protected pockets of scrubby trees, when the trail dips away from the rocky edge, illustrates the reality of windchill; I can feel it in my bones. Running along the ridge, I open out my arms and tip towards the wind, feeling the air resist my body like water, thick and full of currents. I note the branches of the isolated pitch pines, all pointing in the direc- tion the wind is racing towards, as if they were as flexible in the wind as flags. The power of consistency shapes solid objects; the wind must often rush towards the west, off the ocean and across this crest. As the sun begins to sink, my pace quickens, making up for what heat the sun sheds on me with the pounding of my blood. Heading towards The Bowl, feet fly, eyes focus on the twisting path, navigating rocks and wet mud. Breath comes faster. The heat differential between my throat and the air increases; I feel as if I am inhaling shards of ice. As dusk slips in around me, the world is suddenly still; the wind stalls, trees pause. What is it that silences the motion of the air when the sun sets? I piece together an answer. At dusk (and dawn) air currents "turn over;" the general direction of movement reverses. During the day the earth's crust is absorbing solar radiation; thus the air close to the heat- ed surface is warmer than the air above. The warmer air rises, creating a low-pressure area near the surface. At night the earth begins to cool, drawing the warmer air aloft back down towards the surface (where a high pressure area develops). The moments of stillness at dusk repre- sent the period of transition when these two movements cancel each other out, leaving the air quiet as if the mountains are holding their breath. 22 COA Champlain FEBRUARY 12, EVENING Naked slope SNOWING, COLD, WINDY blown and bare BAR HARBOR Wind-whipped pockets packed with snow varicose and webbed Snowstorm like a foliose lichen thallus Today there is no road licked into sculpture no sky by incessant gasps of breath no ocean blustering past no mountains- even buildings are dim Raw rock and partial. rumpled into a mountain top Upon closer inspection in front of black fences Sporadic pools of ice and under floating orbs precariously appear under foot of tangerine streetlights patching cracks with glue that dries clear the air is pixilated. polished, The static gets in my nostrils smooth my eyelashes and pockets, Stunted pitch pines attempting to delete me stand silhouetted speck by speck against the stark sky. as thoroughly and silently as the rest of the white world. COA 23 Graduation, 1974 24 | COA COA Class of '74 takes on nation's largest landowner By Loie Hayes '79 In their separate ways, Bill Ginn and Cathy Johnson work to get Plum Creek to do the right thing. In 1974, COA held its first graduation. Two students graduated: Bill Ginn and Cathy Johnson. Today, both are living in Maine and working on regional conservation issues. In their own ways, Ginn, with the Nature Conservancy, and Johnson, with the Natural Resources Council of Maine, are working toward a solution for Plum Creek's Moosehead Lake land holdings. Negotiations continue even as we go to press. ~ DG wo of Maine's most prominent environmental T leaders, Bill Ginn and Cathy Johnson, comprise College of the Atlantic's entire class of 1974. With barely more than two-dozen students enrolled in those first years. Ginn and Johnson often took classes together. Both remember canoeing Washington County's Great Heath with former faculty member and conservation lawyer Dan Kane, seeing wild salmon spawn, and participating in a nascent conservation effort that would bear fruit many years later. After leaving COA, Johnson followed Kane's exam- ple, becoming a lawyer before starting her path in land protection. Ginn joined Maine Audubon, working in part to preserve the Great Heath through cooperation with an adjacent blueberry farmer, then spent several years in the business world pioneering the recycling of sludge and other municipal and industrial waste. It was another COA project-the bottle bill-that had first taught him the power of using market-based strategies to leverage ecological goals. He still marvels at the effectiveness of that small five-cent deposit. COA 25 Ginn now serves as director of the Global Forest Partnership of The Nature Conservancy, a position that has taken him all over the world working with conservationists, government agencies and business owners to promote sustainable forestry and ecosystem preservation. Johnson is senior staff attorney and North Woods project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Now they and their respective organizations are deeply engaged with a project that could set many precedents for development in Maine's unorganized townships, that vast swath of forests and lakes in the northern section of the state. Their different ways of engaging with the Plum Creek Timber Company's development proposal for the land sur- rounding Maine's largest lake, Moosehead, has, in Ginn's words, "created the occasional tension, but underscores the importance of many minds working to test alterna- tive approaches." While their tactics are as divergent as a carrot and a stick, they share the goal of guiding the nation's largest landowner to do the right thing-or at least not the strip-and-sell thing-in this prime jewel of Maine's forested wilderness. In the three decades since Johnson and Ginn's time at COA, Maine has experienced profound development pressures. Population growth is a big factor. Maine now has roughly 1.25 million residents, up 25 percent from 1970. Nationwide growth is even more dramatic, at 50 percent during the same decades. Add rising standards of living to the simple numerical growth, along with fed- eral policy that subsidizes automobile ownership and disinvests urban infrastructure, and you can see why small towns and rural areas are fac- ing so much sprawl. Maine's timber industry has also undergone a dramatic shift in recent decades, leading directly to the Moosehead situation today. New land ownership patterns and employment practices have decimat- ed the economic health of North Woods communities like Greenville. As Bill Ginn explains, "When I was at College of the Atlantic, Great Northern Paper Company employed 5,100 people. Today those mills employ about five- to seven hundred people. That's not to say that more people are not involved but the companies no longer have company crews in the woods cutting trees; that's all contracted. They no longer have truck drivers; that's all contracted. They have automated processes in the mills so that they can use fewer employees. This is part of moving to a 'lean and mean' manufacturing environment, which is not a bad thing, because the reality is that we have to compete with the rest of the world. But it has been part of the gut-wrenching change in the rural areas of Maine and in the rural areas of most forest-owning states. Greenville had twice as many people living in it thirty years ago as it does today." Ginn and Johnson are each playing high profile roles in respond- ing to this economic change in the North Woods. Greenville and 26 COA Moosehead Lake are the gateway to the largest tract of contiguous forest east of the Mississippi. Within those twenty-six million acres is a half-million-acre tract surrounding Moosehead that has passed from one multinational timber company to another in relatively quick succession, most recently coming into the possession of Plum Creek, the largest private U.S. landholder. Plum Creek bought the land in 1998, paying Sappi Fine Paper North America a cool $180 million for some 900,000 acres zoned for timber- land and dispersed recreation such as hiking, snowmobiling, and fishing. The company's Real Estate Investment Trust sold off eighty-nine lots for vacation homes on First Roach Pond, twenty miles north of Greenville, in 2001. A few years later, Plum Creek unveiled a rezoning proposal based on a plan for the largest development ever proposed in Maine- some 400,000 acres-including almost a thousand house lots, three RV parks, and two resorts equal to another thousand or more accommodations, spread out all over the Moosehead region. The Natural Resources Council of Maine, with Cathy Johnson leading the charge, joined with local area residents arguing that Maine's Land Use Regulatory Commission (LURC) should not grant the rezoning request. With opposition to the proposal running high, Plum Creek withdrew its plan for revision. The second iteration of the Plum Creek plan in April 2006 included a corollary brokered by Bill Ginn: a 350,000-acre conservation easement sale, conditioned upon approval of the rezoning proposal. The conser- vation groups that had negotiated the easement sale-The Nature Conservancy, Maine Audubon, and Forest Society of Maine-made it clear that they were taking no position on Plum Creek's rezoning plan. Natural Resources Council of Maine likewise sees the easement sale as legally irrelevant to the decision LURC needs to make about Plum Creek's development proposal. Johnson worries that making the easement sale contingent on approval of Plum Creek's development application sets a bad prece- dent. She explains her perspective on the distinction between the easement sale and the development proposal, "The law sets forth specific criteria that Plum Creek needs to meet in order to get its land rezoned. Donated conservation, not paid-for conservation, is what the law requires. We would like to see Plum Creek go forward, now, with its thirty-five million dollar conservation agreement with the Nature Conservancy, as have a number of other large landowners, including Katahdin Forest, another conservation deal Bill worked on. Separating the paid-for conservation project from the development proposal would eliminate any appearance of inappropriate pressure on the inde- pendent [LURC] commissioners." COA 27 Plum Creek's second plan was an improvement over its first. The company increased the acreage on which it would donate permanent conservation easements from eleven to seventy-one thousand. Yet, while it shifted a portion of the more far-flung developments closer to Greenville, 90 percent of the house lots remained in the same locations specified in the original plan, some as far as thirty-five miles from Greenville, necessitating the building of many miles of new roads and power lines and promising a staggering increase of traffic on the few existing gravel roads around the lake. The NRCM is particularly con- cerned about what Johnson calls this "wilderness sprawl." "Our concern is that future development be located in, or right next to, existing development, where it can take advantage of existing pub- lic services like snow plowing, fire protection and police protection, and be near the hospitals, churches, and school, rather than having it spread many miles up into the woods, which has the negative effect of destroying the very character of the region. A significant portion of the Moosehead Lake region's future economy is going to be based on tourism. And you don't want to destroy the very reason that tourists come to the area, which is the spectacular beauty of the lakes and forests in the Moosehead region. Scattering development up through there is like killing the goose that lays the golden egg." Ginn also fears "kill[ing] the very thing that makes [people like] me want to live in rural areas: the privacy, the small communities We need to frame development in the places that are best for develop- ment and set aside the places that have other values for society. And the only way we're going to get there is to work with the developers." While Ginn and Johnson both want to encourage more conserva- tion, a viable economy combining tourism and ecologically sound forestry, and development clustered near existing towns, their organi- zations' different approaches to Plum Creek illustrates some wide- spread strategic differences within the larger environmental move- ment. Ginn acknowledges that, "There's no question that Plum Creek sat down with us because they were worried that their initial offer to the community was not destined for success because of public opposi- tion Public pressure writ large is vitally important to building a com- promise because otherwise there's nothing to compromise." Yet he also speaks with frustration about what he sees as inherent weakness- es in the rezoning process. "If we think that the only answer [to inap- propriate development] is through the regulatory process, we won't get the vision that we want. Regulatory processes are typically yes or no processes. They're not 'let's work out and optimize and get the best solution.' We think that we've created a framework that is allowing for conservation. Is it perfect? No. It's not perfect. But it's an old saw: 'Perfection is the enemy of the good.' I think this is a much better solu- tion because we engaged Plum Creek directly in the conversation." It was during the returnable containers struggle in the 1970s-the long battle to win and retain the bottle bill-that Ginn first realized the power of using market incentives to accomplish policy goals, 28 COA employing the logic of profit to win environmental concessions from capitalists. He used those principles to succeed in this waste recyling business, and in his more recent conservation efforts has endeavored, "to make these market-based ideas around conservation part of the toolkit that conservation deploys This is an idea that's greatly expanding as we look at things like global climate change and people begin to recognize that market-based systems actually can work and can be quite efficient ways of getting regulatory change accom- plished You might have seen [on January 22] that ten major busi- nesses and a group of advocacy organizations joined together to lobby for a mandatory carbon cap-and-trade regime. I believe we will see even the U.S. adopting some kind of market-based approach [to limiting greenhouse gas emissions] in the coming years." Ginn details his belief that environmental entrepreneurship is a way for conser- vationists to surmount the barriers of dwindling public resources and scarce charitable dollars in his book Investing in Nature. The debate of the relative merits of "street heat" and "in the suites" bargaining too often obscures the fact that both tactics can contribute to the ultimate goal of bringing a corporation closer to a community's ideals. NRCM has worked with Moosehead area residents to create a detailed alternative development proposal entitled, "A Vision for the Moosehead Lake Region," which calls for development of less than five hundred total accommodation units and a single, smaller resort, with all development clustered within two miles of Greenville, the village of Rockwood, or the existing ski resort between the two towns. In the face of continued public opposition and questions from LURC, Plum Creek has decided that they will again revise their propos- al. Plum Creek stands to gain about twenty million more in profits from their land if they obtain the rezoning requested in their second appli- cation, according to a study by the Open Space Institute. This would be in addition to the thirty-five million they stand to gain from the compensated easement negotiated by the conservancy. With that much profit at stake, Ginn feels optimistic, and Johnson hopeful, that the next revision will be another step closer to their shared vision for an ecologically and economically sound plan for the Moosehead region. This article was completed before Plum Creek released the full ver- sion of its revised 2007 plan. Early reports indicate that the proposed development may shift closer to existing towns, donated easements would increase by about ten thousand acres and more shoreline would be preserved. The conservation easement sale negotiated by Bill Ginn would remain unchanged. Loie Hayes '79 is a freelance editor and writer. When not working or parenting two daughters, she's very involved in climate change activism. loiehayes@verizon.net. For more information on Ginn's Investing in Nature, go to http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/maine/council/art18264.html and for NRCM's A Vision for the Moosehead Lake Region, go to http://www.nrcm.org/publication_alternative_vision.asp. COA 29 The Magical Piece John Cooper's human ecology of music By Jim Frick '78 hen John Cooper plays the saxophone, you W can hear the influence of alto sax greats Paul Desmond and Cannonball Adderly and you can sense a deep understanding of the history and evolution of the music-from swing to bebop, from John Cooper, Jim Frick '78 and Millard cool to fusion. But John Cooper's brilliant jazz style Dority in the John Cooper Trio of the 1990s. and sound are all his own. His solos are lyrical and fluid, filled with original ideas that can span the spec- trum of musical expression-from humor to down- and-out blues, from serenity to edgy irreverence. 30 COA Cooper is also an accomplished composer. His works incorporate fresh melodic ideas with modern, jazz-influenced harmonies and fre- quently changing, often unusual time signatures. Dozens of his works have been published and performed around the country. He's written scores for the films of College of the Atlantic colleague Nancy Andrews, as well as for some half-dozen documentaries that are fea- tured on Maine Public Television. He's also composed original music for numerous special events, including the inaugurations of former Maine governor, Angus King, and current COA president, David Hales. But as vitally important as performing and composing are in Cooper's life, it's teaching that is his number one priority. And as COA's only music professor, John Cooper is a man on a mission-to make understanding the language of music a part of every human ecologist's education and to bring the joys of musical self-expression to as many COA students as possible. In pursuit of that mission, his commitment to students at the college is becoming legendary. "John is a teaching machine," exclaims COA faculty memeber in art, Ernie McMullen, who headed the search committee that brought Cooper to the college in the late 1980s. "It was obvious from the start that he was dedicated. He easily carries the heaviest teaching load of anyone at the college. Not only are all his classes very popular, he also does all these one-on-one sessions and tutorials. He doesn't turn any student away." In addition to the full load of courses, Cooper takes on an amazing twenty-five to thirty tutorials per year. He also directs the COA chorus and a wide range of instrumental ensembles. A good part of Cooper's dedication is just a reflection of his deep passion for music. But he admits that part of it also comes from his stubborn ego. "Yeah, it's an ego thing, I think," he says. "I have this feeling that there isn't anyone out there who can't learn music from me. It's the chal- lenge- I thrive on that. Most people have a good enough ear that they John Cooper eagerly listens to the can develop in the language of music. I have students come to me and playing of his piano students. say, 'I'm not musical, no one can teach me.' But I know I can. I sit down with them with the guitar or piano and I can't wait to teach them all the stuff they can do on the instrument." John Cooper is willing to work with any level of student, from the trained and gifted to the musical novice. But there's a catch. You have to buy into his system. And you had better be prepared to work. "I tell students, 'I know where the gold is buried," Cooper says. "'I'll lead you there if you are willing to stay with it and work at it." Working at it means learning the fundamentals of music through Cooper's system of studying scales and patterns in every key based on a number system. His no-nonsense approach had one student refer to his fundamentals course as "music boot camp." "I'm tough," Cooper insists. "I'm not a cheerleader. I'm more like a drill sergeant. Sometimes students sign up thinking they can pick and choose what they want to learn in music. Not with me. They have to COA 31 learn the fundamentals and know that music is a serious study as well as a whole lot of fun." In making his point, he uses an example of an English major taking a college math course. "The math teacher doesn't look at that student and say, 'Well, you're never going to do any difficult math, so just learn these few simple things so you can balance your checkbook.' No, he expects every student to learn the same material whether they are going to be a scientist or a novelist." Part of Cooper's tough approach comes from knowing that the true joy and satisfaction of music only comes with a certain level of under- standing and technique. "John's approach to music is this," says COA president David Hales, "you can be the most inspired player in the world, but you're not going to create anything worthwhile without developing your technique. It's exciting to watch him. John knows what every one of his students is capable of and he pushes them to their limits. It's a tough-love approach, but one that stems from his dedication to students." Hales adds that he believes Cooper's "Music and all the arts are approach has an impact on the pedagogy of the whole college. vital to human ecology One musically-gifted student who, early on, had a difficult time with the Cooper because they are a way of "tough-love" approach was Phelan Gallagher. Gallagher first took saxophone us communicating with one lessons from Cooper when he was a high school student in Blue Hill. another in forms other than "I remember he laid into me about not knowing my major scales," Gallagher says. speaking or writing" "I always got by because I had a good ear and, to be honest, I wasn't ready to work as hard as he wanted me to." Gallagher went on to study music at Loyola College in New Orleans. In the middle of his sophomore year he took a visiting term at COA and gave the Cooper method a second try. This time he understood why Cooper had put such demands on him. "The more teachers I studied with, the more I came to respect his approach, Gallagher says. "He pushes hard and has high expectations, but when I finally committed myself to John's method, it made such a huge difference. He was right; there is no getting around learning the fundamentals. He once told me that I had all the talent, but I didn't have the work ethic. He said if I could develop that, I could do anything I wanted to in music. That is probably the greatest thing he did for me- he made me understand that." Gallagher had such a productive term at COA that when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and Loyola closed for six months, he returned to the college for another term as a visiting student. Cooper may be the college's music boot camp director, but he is fully aware that COA is a college of human ecology, not a conservatory. Although he's tremendously impressed with the level of talent of many 32 COA of his students, he knows that only a few will choose musical careers. Still, more than a dozen have done so. Over the years he's developed a deeper understanding of just how music relates to the college's over- all mission. "Music and all the arts are vital to human ecology because they are a way of us communicating with one another in forms other than speak- ing or writing," Cooper explains. "I consider it another language, anoth- er way of communicating ecological perspectives, humanistic values or artistic ideas. For many COA students, music is the part of their life in which they can release those values, ideas and emotions." And in the COA tradition, Cooper uses an interdisciplinary approach. His History of Western Music course doesn't just analyze Beethoven's nine symphonies, it looks at what was going on in the pol- itics and culture of Europe at the time that was influencing Beethoven's thinking. In his history of jazz, rock and blues, students don't just learn to appreciate the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Muddy Waters, they'll also learn about the slave trade, life in cosmopolitan New Orleans and Supreme Court decisions that greatly affected the life of African-Americans. Cooper admits that he really wasn't very familiar with human ecolo- gy or the mission of the college when he first arrived on campus for a job interview in the spring of 1989. At the time he was living in New Jersey, teaching music at the University of Pennsylvania and Lincoln University. What impressed him most about COA was the involvement of the students and the quality and commitment of the faculty. Over the years, though, his interaction with COA colleagues has greatly expanded his perspective. "One thing about being the only music person at the college is that it's hard to keep up with all the latest things related to my own disci- pline,' Cooper says. "On the other hand, I'm learning a great deal about other disciplines. That's really invigorating and something I love about the college. COA faculty members are just plain smart; talking with them is challenging and stimulating." In turn, folks at the college seem to feel very fortunate to have the dedication and talent of a John Cooper. "One reason that John is so perfect for the college is that he's inter- ested in and well-versed in every variety of music-classical, jazz, Latin, blues-everything," says McMullen, himself a pianist. "And he can play and teach almost every instrument. I'll walk by his studio and see him working with students on trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, voice, as well as all the wind instruments. That's what it takes when you are a one-per- son department. That's what we never had here before. What John has done with music at COA enriches the whole college. I think music and art are what make us special. It's the magical piece of our curriculum." Jim Frick '78 worked at COA 1978 to 1983, spending three years as admission director. He now lives in Orono and is executive editor of the University of Maine's Maine Alumni Magazine. A vibes player, he has had his own group, "A" Train for more than twenty years. John Cooper often plays with the ensemble. Photos by Toby Hollis. COA 33 Nancy Andrews latest film, The Haunted Camera, the final work in her Ima Plume Trilogy, had Drawings and Puppets its New York premiere in October at the Museum of Modern from the Haunted Camera Art. Earlier in the year, Andrews, faculty member in perform- ance art and video production, was a featured filmmaker at Photos by Toby Hollis the 52nd annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. A four-time nominee for a Rockefeller Foundation Film and Video Fellowship, she has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2007 Outside the Frame Award from the Maine Film Academy, honoring a Maine filmmaker who has taken filmmaking beyond traditional boundaries. In presenting the award, the Academy wrote, "Nancy Andrews has now completed a brilliant trilogy of absolutely unique films. The Ima Plume Trilogy marks the full emer- gence of a great talent." Not only are the films surprising, unsettling and witty, but the individual components, the drawings and puppets and guises that make up the animation and live action collages of Andrews' films, are also works of art. COA is proud to pres- ent puppets and drawings from Andrews' The Haunted Camera. 34 COA " Nancy Andrews' films are small treasures, finely crafted, exquisite in subtle details and as rare as they come. Her cinema is artisanal- beautiful in its homespunness, expressive in its miscellany of hand-made images, whether drawn, animated or acted, and sly in its humor. The art of performance is integral to Andrews's short pieces, and disguise and masquerade are keen aspects of her Ima Plume Trilogy which is at one and the same time a meditation on the universe and a hoot. " ~ Laurence Kardish Senior Curator, Department of Film and Video Museum of Modern Art COA 35 1A Untitled study for The Haunted Camera Sumi ink on paper, 22" X 30" Untitled study for The Haunted Camera Untitled study for The Haunted Camera Sumi ink on paper, 22" X 30" Sumi ink on paper, 22" X 30" NOVEL EXCERPT 337675 N Victory Garden By Bill Carpenter e sat down on the front steps and let the cold wet H slush soak through his leggings and wool pants till he could feel the skin raisining up against the Adapted from the first chapter of wool. The mailman, who usually got to his building before Bill Carpenter's novel-in-progress nine on Saturdays, had come at nine-fifteen or nine-thirty with the working title, Victory before, but he had never been as late as ten of ten. Even if Garden, a coming-of-age story he appeared at this moment it would be another twenty about 12-year-old Richard Curtis, minutes before he arrived. One time Richard had made the whose father, a professor, is headed to Britain as a World War mistake of running all the way to meet him and Mr. Petrillo II intelligence officer. - D.G. had told him it was selfish to ask for his own mail out of turn, especially in wartime, and if he tried it again there would be no mail at the Curtis apartment for a week. So, with his clothes soaking up the frigid slush like a thick flan- nel sponge, he sat and waited, occupying himself with a new term from sixth-grade science, capillary action. Perhaps Mr. Petrillo would know of his numbing pain-in - fact, the danger of lethal pneumonia-and speed things up. COA 37 Richard had sent away for the Captain Midnight Petrillo's coming down the sidewalk with my Secret Decoder Ring on the twenty-sixth of decoder ring." December. He taped three quarters from his "You won't have much use for a decoder ring in Christmas stocking to an Ovaltine boxtop and the hospital. Come here, I'll give you something to carefully printed out his name and address on a do." In the kitchen she had the cake tins out, the plain piece of paper: sugar and flour. She handed him the bowl of white, fat-colored margarine and the small bright Richard Curtis sunset-colored pellet that somehow had enough 33 Irving Street color to turn the whole bowl a pink-orange color Cambridge, Mass. like pig butter. "Knead," she said. "And don't leave His mother had said, 'how could anyone pos- any white spots. It's for your father's going-away sibly want anything on the day after Christmas?' cake and it's supposed to be a surprise." Of course at her age she had no idea what want Before he was halfway through kneading the means. It is a word like hunger. Just because you margarine, Mr. Petrillo's boots sounded on the eat a big breakfast doesn't mean you won't be porch, the mail spat through the door slot and he starving again by ten. The reason parents don't was gone. Richard tore across the apartment need stuff is because they've lost their imagin- towards the front door, his hands two yellow- ations. It must be like death, being that old and not streaked boxing gloves of lard. Three or four flat wanting anything at all. white envelopes lay on the floor along with a The Captain Midnight announcer had said, copy of LIFE that had been folded over to fit "allow four weeks for delivery." Richard deliber- through the slot. His eye-sockets grew hot and he ately mailed it off on a Saturday so it would arrive bit his tongue to keep from crying. on the Saturday four weeks later and he would be home to receive it. That week they still had both calendars on the pantry wall, side by side, and he traced the four weeks with a thin pencil line between them, the old 1942 Peace on Earth December one and the new 1943 January one with a B-24 Liberator flying through the snowy night. Four weeks from December 26 was this very morn- ing, January twenty-third. All the way down Irving Street, in fact, all the way around the corner to the Rindge School, the ice storm had covered the bare branches so the trees stooped and sagged like old grandmothers who could barely stand up. Now, finally, it was warmer and one by one, with a snap like gunfire, the branches were shedding their coats of ice and breaking free. Waiting for his decoder ring to arrive, he could gaze down the line of trees and imagine they were a squadron of Liberators, drop- ping their incendiary rain on the helpless, snowed-in vehicles below. Then the door opened behind him and his mother's hand grabbed him by the hood of the parka and, even though he gripped the top step with both mittens, she pulled him up. "For God's sake, Richard, that's your only dry pair of leggings and now they're soaked. That does it, sweetheart. You're spending the rest of the day inside." She Photo by Philippe Halsman © Halsman Estate spoke to him like a child, but when he stood up, if she hadn't had high heels on, he would look her almost directly in the eye. "Mom. Have mercy. Mr. 38 COA "Richard, sweetheart, Paul's going to be leaving tomorrow. We have no idea when we'll see him again. Do you want me to think you care more about that decoder ring than your own father?" "Yes." "What kind of an answer is that? My mother would have washed my mouth out with soap." "He told me himself to be honest in everything while he was gone." "Except what?" "Except we can't say where he's going in the army or what he does. But that's different. That's war. This is just a family. You asked a question and I gave you an honest answer." "Richard, you're almost twelve. You should He showed her a shot of the dirigible's cabin: know honesty's not as simple as it looks." bombardier looking for U-boats with binoculars, "I know. Military secrets. You have to lie in all pilot at the controls. "I hope the war lasts forever." directions if you want to win a war. I'm going to lie "Richard. Why would you say such a thing?" "Cause I want to be in it. It has to last at least about my age when the time comes to join up. Winning the war is more important than a little four more years. Kids are enlisting at sixteen." piece of truth, like a birthday. Dad's probably lied "Not in this household they're not. What would to us already. I don't care. He's a spy and a soldier you do, be a blimp pilot?" and it's his work. But outside of war, a man's not "No. I would fly a P-51 Mustang. They go four supposed to lie at all." hundred miles an hour. This blimp only does sixty- five." "A man? What about us?" "I don't know. It seems like women get to lie His mother opened the oven door and put a fork in the cake and let him lick it off. It was still sometimes." "Not I,' said the pig." wet. "Damn. The gas is off again. The cake's not "Never? I'm thinking of Santa Claus? Oviparous done. What are we going to do?" easter mammal?" "Swearing won't help, Mom. You could put it on the radiator." "We can't lie to a child that knows 'oviparous,' "The radiators are stone cold. I haven't heard especially if we don't know what it means our- selves. Egg-laying I suppose. I wish we could the heat banging since eight this morning." get some eggs. Your father's cake might be a little "The gas will come on again this afternoon. It tastier." did yesterday." "The cake will be ruined. Your father will be With a hot mug of Ovaltine on the table to home by then." She picked up the LIFE and pursed encourage speedy delivery of the ring, and the her lips around an invisible straw like Rita baking cake making the kitchen smell like Hayworth, whether in scorn or imitation, he Schraft's, he examined the cover of LIFE with Rita couldn't tell. He wandered into the dining room to Hayworth sipping a chocolate malted through a work on his model plane. double straw. "You'd look like her, Mommy, if you His mother lit a cigarette and watched him twist painted your nails." his face up with his tongue between his teeth, try- "And caked my face, and rouged my lips, and ing to drag his father's old penknife along the blue plucked my eyebrows, and permed my hair, and curve painted on the balsa sheet. It would be a said good-bye to a few pounds and years." month's work to make the P-40 look as good as "She's making a face," he noticed. "I don't think Ivan Phillips' A-26, and even then it would be half the size. she likes the chocolate malted." "I'm sure she'd rather be drinking something else. What else is in there?" The gas went on again. Finally, the entrance "Blimps." darkened with his father's lofty form. He was so tall, with the stiff, visored officer's hat on, he had "Oh, that's something I can identify with. Let's see them." to dip his head slightly to clear the door frame. COA 39 She ran to greet and kiss him at the door. Richard "But it's not till February!" stayed in the dining room, standing over his air- "Your father wanted to be here. So we changed craft factory for his father's military approval, the date." proud but nonchalant. When the uniformed man He filled his lungs and blew out the twelve can- came to inspect his Warhawk, Richard gave a sharp dles with a single breath. He wished for the war to salute. last through 1946, when he would join up and "At ease, Private." bring it to a fiery end by diving out of the sun on "Thank you, sir." Then, like a little kid, he the tails of the last few Luftwaffe in his tur- jumped up into his father's arms. bocharged Mustang. He and Ivan had already "Hey, I'm only qualified to lift a hundred divided the world between them. As soon as they pounds." got their wings, Ivan would use his Chance-Vought "Then put me down, I'm a hundred and five." Corsair to eliminate the Japs and Richard would "Over the limit. Bombs away!" His father spun take out the Krauts with a single long strafing run and dropped him like a blockbuster on the living in his P-51. Then he would rule the Pacific and room couch. Richard would have Europe. All Japs and Nazis "Let me see your uniform. The gold bars are would be tortured to the point of death, then lieutenant, right?" hanged. "Right." "Did you make a wish?" "Where are your ribbons?" "Yes. I wished for the war to be over quickly so "None yet, those have to be earned." Daddy could come home." "What's that pin?" His brown US army uniform "Amen, sweetheart. That was my wish too." jacket had three small gold letters where the com- His father reached into the long canvas duffel- bat ribbons should be, over the breast pocket. bag and pulled out a huge present wrapped in "That's my outfit. OSS." newsprint with a brown ribbon taped around it. "I know, 'Office of Secret Services." "That's the only color they had at the commissary." "Strategic Services. But secret just the same." He tore through the wrapping and came up with a box saying MARX JUNIOR BOMBARDIER. His father loosened his tie after dinner and said, He thought he'd heard of all the toys in the world "Richard, you're going to be the man of the house but this was a new one. According to the box cover for a while. Unquestioning obedience, that's what it was a complete plane cockpit, steering wheel, I've been studying for the last month out at Fort instruments, and in the middle a bombsight with Devens." marble bombs. The sight had elevation and "I thought we were fighting for democracy," windage controls just like the real Bendix bomb- Richard said. "I thought unquestioning obedience sights of a B-17. "It will take some assembly," his was the other guys." father said. "You and Mrs. Lukeman can handle it. His mother said, "Please don't talk back, Leave it out for us, so your mother and I can play Richard, tonight of all nights." with it when we come home." "It's all right, Helen. I wasn't a very good soldier Then the telephone rang. His mother picked it myself. Let's put it this way. Democracy is the light up and her grin sagged into a disappointed frown. at the end of the tunnel." "Thanks," was all she said and hung up. She turned "Oh, I get it," Richard said. "Obedience is the to her husband. "Mrs. Lukeman can't come." tunnel." "Then we'll stay home and build the bomber "Exactly. Richard, Mrs. Lukeman is coming over, kit," his father said. "We can listen to the and I'm taking your mother to the Brattle. But first, Philadelphia at eight. They're playing the a surprise." Shostakovich Seventh." His mother turned the corner into the pantry "Seventh time this month," his mother said. and out of sight, but he could hear her reach up "I want to see Casablanca. I've waited three weeks on tiptoes to the high pantry shelf where the cake to see it with you. Richard, you're coming with us." was stored. In a minute she came in again with the "Mother, please. It's a love story. Besides, I've cake for his father, only it was decorated with can- already started on the plane, see?" He dumped the dles. Twelve. parts box on the table amid dishes and silverware "Happy Birthday," they both said. but it didn't help. 40 COA In a few minutes his father had washed the dish- plane and heiled Hitler, then they showed a guy in es and the three of them had buckled on their a night club playing chess with himself. He was overshoes and were feeling their way down the playing the white pieces and looked very worried dark sidewalk towards Dudley Street and Harvard about the move, which didn't make much sense Square. "As soon as our eyes get accustomed," his because the black pieces were his too. Maybe he father said, "it will seem like daylight." Then he was learning to think like the enemy. The chess added, "We had to crawl under barbed wire at player's name was Rick, which could have been night." That stopped his parents for a kiss, but him, too, but nobody called him that. Richard kept right on walking, his head lowered Then a colored man named Sam was singing somewhat to creep under the live fire. and playing the piano with big round eyes and a At the Brattle Theater he wanted to sit between big fat white man was trying to buy him, like the his parents but they wouldn't let him, so he sat on old slave days, but Sam refused to be sold. Then the inside, between his mother and an old woman the plane took off again, only it was a different with several strands of pearls among her fleshy plane this time, an American DC-1; the Nazis came neck rings and a fur scarf that had the heads of the into the restaurant and they arrested a short little minks still on it with their sharp fangs and hard lit- guy who started shooting everything in sight. tle black eyes, staring at him through the syrupy For a long time nothing happened, then it got perfume smell. The screen was dark since the good again. Rick was trying to give the pretty show hadn't started yet, but the red EXIT lights and movie star a long disgusting kiss, worse than his the aisle lights were so bright they made him blink parents at their worst, but the Nazis must hate kiss- and squint like an owl at sunrise. In the National ing too because they came in with a whole army to Geographic they showed fish that grew huge eyes break them up. They started with horses, then they because they had hardly any light, other fish gone brought in a column of Panzer IIIs along with air blind from having no light at all. support from Stuka dive-bombers and a twin- At first Casablanca was better than he expected. engine Heinkel 111. That took care of the kissing Right away the cops shot a fugitive from justice, for a while. When they started going at it again in then a very clever pickpocket took a fat man's wal- the restaurant the Nazis attacked them with their let without him even suspecting it. Richard wished 77 millimeter field guns. She called him Richard, he could run the film back so he could see how then he kissed her so hard she broke a wine glass the crook worked. Then a plane buzzed right with her hand. But even after all that kissing, the down over the city of Casablanca, not a warplane girl didn't show up at the train station so Rick had but a Junkers JU-52 military transport with a swasti- to run away with Sam. ka on the side. A bunch of Nazis got out of the COA 41 The movie got boring so he went to sleep. Then someone knocked on the door. He ran to When he opened his eyes there was a roulette answer and it was Professor Lowenfeld from table and a man was playing the number 22 over upstairs. The professor took a folder out of his and over and winning every time. briefcase and gave it to his father. "These are the The metallic light of the screen fell on his moth- informations you wanted. I have put every piece in er's profile so it looked like she was also in black- my best memory. I have been four years since and-white. She had the same look on her face as Berlin but in Stockholm I was hearing from others the lady in the movie, the same haircut and the all the time." same silvery skin. He decided she looked more So Professor Lowenfeld was a spy too with an like Ilsa than Rita Hayworth, then when he looked envelope of German secrets he was giving his back to the screen Ilsa was pointing a gun, some- father to take with him. He felt that he was not in thing his mother wouldn't do in a million years. his own house but somewhere realer, like a movie, She probably wouldn't even know how to pull the which made him feel large and scared at the same trigger. Rick Blaine was such a hero that he walked time. His father brought Professor Lowenfeld's right up to her and told her she could shoot him papers into his study and came out with one of the dead, which would have been a great scene, but big brown bellows folders that he always took to instead she put the gun away and they started work. "Well, Heinz, here are my lecture notes for kissing again. the second semester. How's that for a deal?" His mother came back in her green Christmas When he woke up they were at the airport and dress with high heels and fake nylon stockings the Nazi was phoning the control tower to stop crayoned on the back of her legs. "Good morning, the plane. He tried to shoot Rick but his bullet Professor. Paul is so relieved that he has someone missed and Rick shot him dead with the telephone like you to take over his classes." still in his hand. Then the plane took off. The "I am honored." Professor Lowenfeld bowed his screen said THE END and the lights in the theater head with the pigeon-colored hair and kissed his turned on but his mother stayed in her seat crying mother's hand, old-fashioned as the German wait- while his father put his arm around her and she er in the movie who cried when the girl's husband put her head on his shoulder like Ilsa and Rick won all the chips. "Now I must go back upstairs to Blaine in the convertible. In a minute she was smil- Hannah. Do not worry about your students. I vill ing again and they could get up and leave. exactly follow your excellent notes." In the morning the first thing he saw was the The Professor took his glasses off and stooped long olive-drab army duffelbag fully packed and down a bit to look at Richard. Then he reached out lying near the doorway. His father was already in and pinched his cheek gently and turned his face uniform at the table; his mother was as red-eyed around, as if he were Doctor Rosen looking for as she was after the movie. chicken pox. He said, "My vife had a boy like that, Then his father said, "Richard, why don't you but he vas smaller." He turned to the back window look in the other room?" and looked out on the snowy back yard with its He ran back past the pantry into the dining one bare chestnut tree. Then he left and they room, which was always dark because the Phillips' could hear him on the stairs to his own apartment. big house was so near. At the far end of the room "What's wrong with the Professor?" Richard was the Junior Bombardier set, fully assembled asked. and clamped to the end of the dining room table, His father didn't answer. His mother said, "They ready to fly. "Hey, you weren't kidding. You did had a boy your age, though he would have been make it last night." younger when they last saw him. They had to leave "What else do parents have to do after the kids him behind in Europe." are asleep? Why don't you try it out?" "Where is he now?" "Did you?" "Nobody knows, darling. So many people over "I did. I scored a perfect hit, right on the target." there are just lost." "What'd you hit? Frankfurt?" He went over to his Bombardier set and took "The butter knife." out the red plastic control wheel. A cardboard landscape lay in front of the bombsight window. It turned right or left like steering a car, but it also pulled in and out to control the elevators, and as 42 COA you worked the controls, the view through the squeezed her lips into a tight straight line trying bombsight window changed. He turned and not to cry. pushed in till the sight was right on the butter "Mom, what was his name?" knife, whose broad flat blade resembled the carri- "Who?" er Shokaku. He then pushed the Bomb Bay "You know. The other boy. The one that was Release in the center of the wheel and a marble lost." rolled down the chute and onto the butter knife "I think his name was Jacob." on one bounce. Then he asked, "How did that He trained the bombsight on the butter knife. It other kid get lost?" wasn't much of a target but it was the one his "They had stayed too long in Germany," his father chose. Now it became the train taking little mother explained. "They were taking a train from Jacob back to Germany. He aimed very carefully so Berlin to Copenhagen in 1939. When the train he would hit just the locomotive and not the cars stopped at the Danish border, the police asked to carrying the children in the opposite direction speak with their son and told Heinz and Hannah from their parents. The pilot held the B-24 they would put him on the next train. They waited Liberator on a steady course over the train below. in Copenhagen and he never came." He found the plume of smoke from the steam "Why didn't they go back for him? You would engine and angled the sight just behind it, where have gone back for me, wouldn't you?" the engineer and the train crew would be. He "They weren't allowed to go back. They had a opened the bomb bay doors and dropped a 2000- transit visa for Sweden and they had to get on the pound Blockbuster that blew the engine to pieces boat. Heinz had a job here and a U.S. visa, but they and derailed the train so the children could run for waited for their son in Stockholm all that time." their lives into the blinding snow. Then he "It's like the movie." unclamped the Junior Bombardier from the table "It is like the movie," his mother agreed. "They and pulled the shaft of the control wheel out of its were in a foreign country, waiting for visas. But socket, the way it had been before his father built there weren't any children in the movie." it. He got the box out of the pantry cabinet where "You would have come back for me." they kept the cardboard and put the set in it and "We would have. We would have gone back to put it back. His mother looked around the corner Germany and found you, darling, if it took us our and said, "Richard, what are you doing? Your father whole lives. But the Lowenfelds are Jewish, and worked an hour on that." they were not allowed back into Germany once "I'm putting it away. It's just a toy." they had crossed the border. So you must remem- His mother finished shelving it inside the pantry ber when they look at you, they are also thinking cabinet, then latched the door. She knelt down of someone else." and held him close for a minute and he felt her "You would have gone back for me, Jewish or eyes grow warm and moist against his hair. Then not." she dried her face off with her apron and went His mother said, "Oh darling," and pulled him back to the kitchen sink. "We must be brave. You up from his bombardier's turret to hold him can help in here if you want." against her dress. He stood on the footstool beside her and dried She was crying, but he pushed her away. A car the mixing bowl, then waited with the dish towel started honking outside. His father said, "must be while she scrubbed the batter off the two them." He stood up, put his officer's hat on and Mixmaster beaters and rinsed them off. When he shouldered his duffelbag. got the decoder ring on Monday, he wouldn't even His parents kissed for a long time, worse than open the box. He would wrap it like a birthday the movie, then the car honked again. It was start- present and bring it to the Lowenfelds upstairs, ing to snow. and they could save it for when the war was over His father kissed him on the cheek. The two of and they found their son. them stood on the porch and waved till the black DeSoto turned the corner of Irving and Dudley and went out of sight. Bill Carpenter, COA founding faculty member, teaches literature He went back in and left his mother in her light and creative writing. He is the author of the novels The Wooden dress on the porch. When she came in she started Nickel and A Keeper of Sheep, and of three volumes of poetry. immediately on the breakfast dishes. She had COA 43 CLASS NOTES Barbara Dole Acosta ('75) and her family visited her parents' home in Trenton, Maine last summer and visited with Father Jim Gower and Rich Borden A senior research scientist at the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, she hopes to, "beg and cajole state departments of education to do the right thing for English language learn- ers in the public schools." As trustees of the Oscar Romero University in El Salvador, Barbara and husband Paco struggle with making a positive dent in El Salvador, "where two steps forward seem to be followed by at least one back." barbara.acosta3@verizon.net Molly (McAdams) Hampton '76 writes that she lives in Lander, Wyoming with her hus- band, Bruce, and daughters, Sara, 18, and Kaili, 9. "After twenty-plus years working for the National Outdoor Leadership School, I am now the director of philanthropy for the Wyoming Chapter of the Nature Conservancy." "I have finished my dissertation at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California," writes Carol Manahan '77. "The Moral Economy of Corn: StarLink and the Ethics of Resistance,' is a study of the ethical arguments involved in the controversy over genetic engineering. I've been teaching part-time while a student and am now looking for a full-time position." Scott Mercer '78 and family embarked on a 6,246-mile camping and hiking road trip in August from their home in Cape Neddick, Maine to the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. One highlight was waking at 2 a.m. in North Dakota to Jurassic Park type growls and finding several dozen buffalo roaming around their tent. "A few female bison in the area were in estrus, and the boys were in midnight rambler mode. The low, rolling, guttural sounds, especially when heard from a sleeping bag at ground level, were amazingly similar to baleen whales." Son Tyler is featured on the cover of Scott's upcoming book. "I am working as an employment specialist through the Ellsworth office of Allies, Inc., a non-profit mental health agency with offices throughout Maine," writes Anne Patterson '80."I find work for people with disabilities, especially those ages 18 to 26. After hours and on weekends I still tutor students and do a couple of massages. My daughter, 18, is at Maine Maritime Academy in small vessels operations. My son, 20, is at Eastern Maine Community College studying computer systems technology. He's a wiz when it comes to troubleshooting computers! I live with my dog, Tori, and four birds in Southwest Harbor." After some particularly challenging years during which Becky Buyers-Basso '81 and her sisters dealt with the heartbreaking and sometimes bizarre problems created by their father's struggle with Alzheimer's, followed by his death last spring, Becky is taking a leave from her job as a reporter for the Mount Desert Islander. "Skip '83 and I plan to visit our daughter Marisa, 20, who is at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and I hope to accompany Kundalini yoga instructor Siri Prakash Kaur to India to learn more about the origin of this spiritual practice and document the trip. I look forward to using my writing and photography skills 'on the road." Liz Cunningham '82 writes, "Enjoying my work as an illustrator and writer. My husband and I traveled to Andros Island in the Bahamas this year. We did some terrific cave diving in the saltwater blue holes. Our eldest dog Skippy turns 15 in December, living testament to the possibility of being 'an old and bold dog.' If anyone is in Berkeley, don't hesitate to contact me." Find her at www.lizcunningham.net. "I am living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with my wife, Christine," writes Paul Cady '82. COA EARTH DAY & "We are both economic migrants from Maine but hope to return someday. In early 2006 ALUMNI WEEKEND I was diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. I am coming to the end of that process and 'the omens are good' for the future. Until I get April 20-22nd, 2007 back to health, I am helping out on my wife's video projects: www.verstehenvideo.org." Join alumni sharing art, Johannah Bernstein '83 writes, "I have been in Brussels for eight years, running my own photography, film, video & music! international environmental law practice, guest lecturing on international law at several universities and leading international environmental negotiation training for diplomats. food, workshops & fun It has been richly rewarding, not without its stresses, a constant intellectual challenge. When not pursuing the cause of sustainable development, I hike and ski in the highest Milja Brecher-DeMuro altitudes possible. I had an extraordinary week of cross-country skiing near the Arctic 207-288-2944 x268 Circle in Sweden last spring. This summer I spent a week on the Amazon with scientists and religious leaders studying deforestation impacts on climate change. And I return to my beloved Maine for chamber music weeks at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill. My home is always open to COA travelers: johannahberns24@hotmail.com" 44 COA Evelyn Ashford ('83) sends greetings from Minnesota's twin cities, where she lives with CLASS NOTES her son, Zeke, 13, and the mice in the wall. She is working as a massage therapist and doing some writing, happily eschewing Great Deeds for small ones. "I still live on Vashon Island just off the coast of Seattle and life is very good," writes Scott Durkee '84. "Jill, my new wife, and I just drove across the country. Now that we're home, we can fill the tank with biodiesel from the island pump. It feels good to be somewhat off the petroleum grid. After Christmas we're heading to New Zealand. I heard that if you plant five trees, it mitigates the effects of flying, so Jill and I have plant- ed about sixty on our property. We heat our house with firewood from our land and are building a greenhouse. Our goal remains to live lightly on the earth." Housemates from the Kennebec Street house of 1981-82 recently had a reunion in Deer Isle. From left, Tim and Elizabeth Spahr '86 live in Kennebunk (daughter Emily has just started her bachelor of science degree in entrepreneurship at Johnson and Wales); Holly Devaul '84 lives in Boulder, Colorado with partner Rob Edwards and children Noah, 18 and Emma, 14; Marion Harris '88 works for the Digital Library for Earth System Education (www.dlese.org), and Jennifer Schroth '84 is organically farming at Carding Brook Farm in Brooklin, Maine with husband Jon Ellsworth and sons Nolan and Walker (not pictured). Twenty-five years! "I work for Panich and Noel Architects, a small firm in Athens, Ohio," writes Teny Bannick '86. We are getting mostly health and medical service clients, and I help pro- mote the firm's sustainable-integrated-design expertise. With my boss, David Panich, we are hosting a national solar conference in Cleveland this July." Eric Roos '86 continues to work and live on Mount Desert Island with his wife Kelly and son Nicholas Alain Roos. Eric worked as the Marina Manager/Harbormaster in Northeast Harbor for seven years. Feeling "land-locked," he traveled over 30,000 nautical miles as captain of sailing yachts for a private family. The next time his seven-year itch struck, Eric moved ashore to join the Southwest Harbor sales team at Hinckley Yachts. In less than a year, Eric was off to set up a Hinckley sales office in the Great Lakes. In April 2004, Eric returned to MDI as sales manager of the Morris Yachts sales team-and plans to stay put! eroos@morrisyachts.com. Lori Gustafson '87 was offered a job as a veterinary analytical epidemiologist for the United States Department of Agriculture's National Surveillance Unit (the veterinary equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control) in Fort Collins, Colorado. She, Mike Kimball '89 and their boys, Conor, 10, and Liam, 4, now own a home in Fort Collins just a stone's throw (with a really good arm) from the Rocky Mountains. Mike continues to teach anthropology at the University of Maine at Machias, but plans to take a year's leave next fall. Come visit! mkimball@maine.edu Rebekah (Resnick) Padgett '91 lives in Seattle with her husband, John. As a Federal Permit Manager at the Washington State Department of Ecology, she protects water quality and coastal resources. Over the last year, Rebekah has bicycle toured in the San Juan Islands, backpacked along the Olympic Coast, voyaged through the Greek Isles to Turkey, and tubed down the Wenatchee River with family members. Cedar Bough (Blomberg) Saeji '93 is frantically finishing PhD applications and preparing to leave for India to present at the Pacific Asian Conference on Korean Studies accom- panied by her husband, Karjam, and his parents. Afterwards, they hope to see the Dalai Lama. This will be the last chapter in the book Cedar is writing about last summer's sponsored 2,600-kilometer pilgrimage walking from Karjam's hometown to Lhasa. "I have taken a new position as the assistant regional trails and route designation program leader for Region 5 of the Forest Service, comprising eighteen forests in California," writes Colleen G. O'Brien '93. She heads up implementation of the new national travel management rule and has moved to Ocean Beach in San Francisco. cobrien@fs.fed "Our newest family member, Cyrus Reid Rosbach, arrived November 8," writes Derren Rosbach '95. "I have somehow managed to balance my role as a new parent and a student (yes, still in school!) working on a PhD in environmental design and planning at Virginia Tech. We live near the small town of Riner, not far from the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Appalachian Trail and the New River." COA 45 Jason Harrington *96 writes that his wife Laura gave birth to Jackson Skye Harrington on September 13. "He fills us every day with a happiness unlike any we've experienced before," writes Jason, who is continuing his work as a film and video professor at Framingham State College. He is turning toward animation and has developed an ani- mation and multimedia studio at the college. "I am finishing a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore," writes Douglas Sward '96.'I am married, no children." Harry Cabot '97 presented the paper "EcoCity Schools, School Calendars and Brain Clocks" at EcoCity "06 in Bangalore, India in December. "I spent the summer visiting hundreds of voters across eleven counties in Maine, speaking with them about the candidates, the issues that most mattered and the future of the state and nation," writes Kimberly Ballard '97. "It was hard and tiring, but also rewarding and enlightening. I spoke to folks from all backgrounds, all income levels and all degrees of political involvement. I was able to see the condition of the state as a whole, rather than just my small microcosm (hmmm, sounds like a human ecology essay). I then ran the get-out-the-vote effort for House District 65 in Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties, helping to send Rep. Carol Grose back to the State House. Now I will be joining her!" Jasmine Tanguay ("98) is working as project manager and community involvement spe- cialist at CLF Ventures, Inc., the nonprofit consulting group of the Conservation Law Foundation. Jasmine designs collaborative stakeholder strategies for clients dealing with environmental challenges, "using lots of human ecology!" She lives and works in Boston, but travels throughout New England. "I am living in Durham, Maine, where my wife, Valeska, and I bought a house last March," writes Erik Martin '98.' "I work in Portland for an environmental consulting com- pany-interesting, diverse work ranging from a risk assessment of mercury in a Lake Superior harbor to natural resource damages cases in New Jersey. I spend most of my time working with CIS and 3D modeling (ironic that I never took any CIS classes at COA-I'm actually looking at a GIS grad program) though I also do risk calculations, research and the occasional site visit. It's been interesting seeing both the regulatory and the industry side." Laura (Imundo) Snyder "99 married Kane Snyder in an outdoor ceremony at their home in Muncy, Pennsylvania. They are expecting their first child this year. "I'm working as an attorney for the Sierra Club in San Francisco," writes Erin Chalmers '00.° help chapters analyze potential lawsuits and work with the lawyers and activists to ensure that legal actions are well thought out, relatively low risk, part of a larger cam- paign and adequately financed. Helping stop new coal-fired power plants, cleaning up waterways, halting destructive forestry practices and more is fun. Living in San Francisco isn't as confining as I thought it might be-the Bay area is a fantastic place for outdoor activities. Life is good!" Polly Molden '00 writes, -I am living in Baltimore, a.k.a Charm City, working as a nurse in labor, delivery and abortion care. I graduated from Johns Hopkins' nursing school last July and plan to return for a degree in public health. Baltimore is a little rough around the edges, but turtle and I are hanging in there." "I have been working for two years on an independent documentary music video col- lage about a legendary group of old-time fiddlers living in the mountains of Vermont," writes Nikolai Fox '00.°I finished shooting the last few tapes and will be editing and fundraising through a combination of a screening and barn dance with a live string band. See an unfinished version of the trailer at www.nikolaifox.com." 46 COA Rebecca Melius '01 recently began a new position as assistant curator of collections at the Museum of Science in Boston. Her last day in the conservation department of the COA ALUMNI RELATIONS Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts was Friday the 13th of October. rebec- camelius@hotmail.com Alumni: Stay in Touch! Leah Stetson '01 and MPhil '06 writes, "I just started a job writing about wetlands for the To update your contact information, Association of State Wetland Managers, a national nonprofit with offices in southern share class notes in upcoming Maine and New York. I write and edit their newsletters, Wetland Breaking News and publications, tell us of changes Wetland News. I recently attended a Vulnerable Wetlands Forum in Massachusetts host- ed by the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission and felt in your job or life or find out extremely grateful for my human ecology background because of the interdisciplinary about regional alumni events aspects of wetlands restoration, protection and policies." and other alumni services, contact Milja Brecher-DeMuro, After graduating from COA, Jordan Posamentier '01 spent two years starting instrumen- alumni relations-development tal music programs in low-resource New York City elementary public schools while get- coordinator. Call 207-288-2944 ting a masters in education at Queens College. Then he and sweetheart Maria Skorobogatov '03 headed to Texas where Jordan got a law degree from the University of 268 or mbrecher-demuro@coa.edu. Houston Law Center. He interned with a child advocacy center, a cancer hospital and an oil and gas exploration corporation (not evil, really!) while serving on the board of a health law journal. Having passed the California bar, Jordan and Maria are in the Bay Area. Jordan works at a small civil litigation firm focused on healthcare law. A job that actually pays Jordan to argue! "Nettie Jane Fox was born gently and quickly at home on January 31, 2006," writes Nichele Hooper Fox '02. She joined big sister Willa, 3, and Harvest Moon, the yellow lab, to complete the Fox family. "We are living in Bar Harbor, but are planning a big move to our fifteen acres on the Happytown Road in Orland, Maine in the spring. We are very busy!" nichelefox@gmail.com Jody Kemmerer '02 is living in New York City and fundraising for her documentary film, Sky Dancer, about Khandroma Kunzang Wangmo, a contemporary female Buddhist saint living in a remote corner of Tibet. This film is part of Jody's work to preserve Tibetan culture and share its wisdom with the West. Largely inspired by the death of a woman and child in childbirth during the filming of Sky Dancer, Jody is founding the Tibetan Women's Health Initiative, a grassroots program of women's health education in eastern Tibet. www.kaydeychen.org. Borbala Kiss '02 writes, "I've been sailing on schooner Maggie B since March 2006. In early January we will be sailing from the Indian Ocean towards Australia and then on to Tasmania. The boat's captain and owner, Frank Blair, is the son of COA life trustee Edward McCormick Blair. Check out www.schoonermaggieb.net or email me at kiss- bori@yahoo.com." "This year started with my boyfriend Bob and me ditching snowy Chicago for the trop- ics of Australia," writes Allison Garoza '03. "We worked in Queensland, Australia for four months doing refit work on a research dive boat, scuba diving and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, exploring Daintree Rainforest, riding horses through sugar cane, get- ting chased by wild boars and avoiding crocodiles in the river. After we tackled driving on the wrong side of the road, we took an adventurous road trip through the outback to Uluru, passing camels, dingoes, goannas, thorny devils, and narrowly avoiding a kan- garoo. As soon as we can afford it, we're headed back to the land down under!" After three years working as a ZOO keeper in Houston, Texas (and perfecting her "yee- haaw!") Maria Skorobogatov '03 is working as an animal behaviorist at the Humane Society and SPCA in Northern California. She continues to write screenplays and dance. agentms@yahoo.com Briana Duga '04 recently moved to Georgia where she and her husband, Seth, are attending Life University for Chiropractics. Bri and Seth were married last summer in Wells, Maine. She is due to give birth to their first child in May. COA 47 Nellie Wilson '04 writes, "I've been living in Oakland, California and working at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College as an admissions and programs coordi- nator. I often reflect on how COA committees and ACM prepared me to become an administrator in a small graduate college. I've learned a lot about acupuncture, Chinese herbology, and integrative medicine, as well as the work of running a college. If you're interested in acupuncture, find me at www.aimc.edu. I also volunteer with the Center for Sex and Culture (my COA internship) and am involved with others working as heal- ers of the mind, body, sexuality and spirit. I look forward to starting my own career in the healing arts." Marianna Bradley '06 received a Research Education for Undergraduate Fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation. She will be conducting research on juvenile snook in Charlotte Harbor, Florida. SOCIETY FOR HUMAN ECOLOGY CONFERENCE This fall, much of the faculty's efforts were directed toward the Society for Human Ecology Conference. Thanks to COA faculty members Richard Borden, SHE executive $2 director, and John Anderson, SHE president, the conference was an inspiring success. At the opening reception, held in the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, COA board chair Samuel Hamill, Jr. and biology faculty member Stephen Ressel welcomed the 250-odd participants from twenty-one nations. Barbara Carter, SHE executive assis- tant, and students Sean Berg '08 and Margaret Soles '08 were instrumental in the smoothness with which the conference ran. The following is a list of presentations by COA faculty, staff and alumni: Nancy Andrews, faculty member in performance art and video production introduced June Lacombe's talk, "Insights from Environmental Art." Trustee and adjunct faculty member Ron Beard of the University of Maine Extension Service chaired the Community Development session and presented the paper, "Mount Desert Island Tomorrow: Using Principles of Human Ecology to Build Local Rural Capacity-1987 to Present." Ken Cline, faculty member in public policy and environmental law, chaired the Environmental Management session and presented "A River Runs Through It: A college- community collaboration for watershed-based regional planning and education." Cline also chaired the session, "A Human Ecological Approach to Land Conservation: Protection, Education and Regulation" with Sarah McDaniel '93, attorney with the Portland, Maine firm, Murray Plumb and Murray, and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust's Patrick Watson '93. McDaniel also chaired "Integrating a Human Ecological Perspective into the Practice of Law," with participation by Cline, Johanna Bernstein '83, international legal consultant for the United Nations, Leslie Jones '91, Wilderness Society general counsel, Barbara McLeod, former policy analyst and attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency, wife to David Hales, and Katrina Van Dine '82, marine resource attorney. At the closing reception, Cline was given an award for his distinguished contribution to SHE. Dru Colbert, faculty member in graphic design, three dimensional art and museum issues, co-chaired a session on "Arts, Aesthetics and Human Ecology." Nancy Andrews, JoAnne Carpenter, faculty member in art and art history, and Ernie McMullen, faculty member in art, participated. In the Arts and Community Session, Colbert presented the paper, "Cultural Appearances, Community and Interpretive Projects," and Janey Winchell '82 of the Peabody Essex Museum presented "Mend Nature-Heal Ourselves: Collaborative Quilt Project with Artist Clara Wainwright." John Cooper, faculty member in music, chaired a Music and Nature session. Presenting at the session was Chrystal Schreck '03 of the New College of San Francisco. At the closing awards reception Cooper performed a composition he wrote using a poem by David Hales, president, sung by Sophie Pappenheim '08 (photo). At the ceremony, Cooper was given an award for distinguished contribution. Gray Cox, faculty member in social theory, political economics and history, chaired a session on philosophy and presented the paper, "The Epistemological Problematic of Human Ecology: A Quaker Approach." He was joined by Chrystal Schreck '03 who pre- sented "The Intersection of Ecofeminism and Queer Theory: New Stage in Multi-sys- tems Analysis, An Inquiry into Theory and Practice." 48 COA Judith Cox, director of the educational studies program, chaired an Education session at which Harry Cabot '97 of Harvard University presented "EcoCity Schools-Design and COA CAREER AND Purpose for Learning and Time." Following the conference, Cox invited local COA alum- INTERNSHIP SERVICES ni educators to share perspectives on human ecology and teaching. Alumni: We can help! Faculty associate Fran Day received an award for distinguished contribution for the work done by Ecological Society of America. College of the Atlantic's Office of Libby Dean '89 of Dalhousie University, Halifax, presented "Communicating About Internship and Careers offers Environmental Contaminants, Food, and Health Issues with Young Inuit Women in internships and job opportunities Labrador." at www.coa.edu/internships. Contact Jill Barlow-Kelley, director, David Feldman, associate dean for academic affairs and faculty member in mathematics at jbk@coa.edu or 207-288-5015, and physics, chaired a session in "Qualitative Mathematics for Interpreting Dynamic ext. 236 for: Systems" with keynote speaker Richard Levins of Harvard University. Career Information and Guidance Federico Giller '91 of the Centro Nacional de Ecologia Humana in Venezuela, gave a paper, "Adapting to the Information Age: the Challenge of Losing Cultural Identity of Graduate School Information the Taurepam Peoples of the Guyana Highlands, Implications for Conservation and Bio- Job Search Skills cultural Restoration," in the "Sustainable Communities: Culture and Attitudes" session. Resume Review William Ginn '94 of the Nature Conservancy gave the opening keynote speech, Relocation Guidance "Investing in Nature." David Hales introduced him. With COA faculty member in economics, Davis Taylor, and COA adjunct faculty member and former trustee Jay Employment Websites McNally '84, Ginn co-chaired the roundtable discussion, "The Compatibility of Mentoring of Current Students Financial Goals and a Green Business Environment." and Other Alumni Academic Dean Ken Hill, associate dean for academic services and faculty member in education and psychology, chaired two roundtables on "New Directions in Human Ecology Education." Stephen Pulaski '82 of Southern Connecticut State University participated. Faculty associate Robert Kates gave a keynote address, "Sustainability Science-Where it's at?" and participated in a roundtable follow-up, "Sustainability Science." James Kellam '96 of Franklin and Marshall College chaired a Wildlife Management session and gave the paper, "Purpose, Execution, and Effects of Lethal and Non-lethal Management Techniques at a Communal Roost of American Crows." Michael Kimball '89 of the University of Maine at Machias co-presented the paper, "How Diverse is the Maine Public Radio Landscape? A Geographic Analysis of MPBN News Coverage." Gordon Longsworth '90, GIS laboratory director, chaired the GIS and Remote Sensing session and presented the paper, "GIS in the Context of an Education in Human Ecology." Faculty associate Justine Delahunty of Texas Tech University presented "Contemporary Land Cover Change in the United States." Isabel Mancinelli, faculty member in planning and landscape architecture, chaired the "Green Communities: Business and Economics" session. Trustee Stephen Milliken introduced the keynote address by William McDonough, "Cradle to Cradle: Designing for Human and Ecological Health." Milliken received an award for distinguished contribution to SHE. Biology faculty member Suzanne Morse introduced Richard Levins for his keynote address, "Converging Crises and a Glimmer of Hope." Gene Myers ('81) chaired a four-part session on Conservation Psychology and co-pre- sented two papers, "Attunement Empathy and Caring with Wild Animals: A Theoretical Overview" and "Fear and Caring: Children's Conceptions of Bats." Peter Pavacevic '07 won a prize for his poster presentation; Marianna Bradley '06, Jamus Drury '08 and Brittany Slabach '09 received honorable mention notices. Sarah Spruce '06 and April Boucher '06 also presented posters. Fae Silverman '03 gave a paper on "Communication for Divers: A Model for International Communication, A Tool for Underwater Stewardship." COA 49 Bonnie Tai, faculty member in education, chaired two Education sessions and co-presented two papers, "Enacting Eco-Justice Education: Educating Humans Who Can Reconcile Cultural and Environmental Agendas" and "Enacting Human Ecology in Education: A Paradoxical Framework Joining Eclectic Theory with Versatile Practice." In these sessions Nicole d'Avis '02 of Sociedad Latina presented "Urban Education and Human Ecology: Serving Urban Youth and Nature Through a Unified Practice of Human Ecology" and Mike Kimball '89 presented "A Pedagogical Model for Empowering Undergraduate Students as Community Change Managers." Davis Taylor, faculty member in economics, co-chaired a roundtable on the "Compatibility of Financial Goals and a Green Business Environment" with William Ginn '74 and Jay McNally '84, adjunct faculty member in green business. Taylor also chaired the "Forestry and Agro-Ecology" session and, with McNally, a "Business Education in the Liberal Arts Environment" roundtable. Craig Ten Broeck, sustainability director, chaired the "Climate and Global Issues" session and presented the paper "Colleges Taking Climate Action!" John Visvader, faculty member in philosophy, chaired a philosophy session and presented "The Main Event: Human Ecology in Practice." Faculty associate Patricia Honea-Fleming presented "Identity, Insight and the World Story: Holding Your Place in Indra's Net." Karen Waldron, associate dean for faculty and faculty member in literature and theory, chaired the roundtable, "Writing the Environment," at which Bill Carpenter, faculty member in literature and creative writing, was present. She also introduced Lizzie Grossman for her keynote talk, "High Tech Trash." FACULTY NOTES John Anderson led a talk titled, "It Shall Bruise Thy Head: Conservation Biology and Human Ecology" during the inauguration weekend seminars on Saturday, October 7. After the New York premier of The Haunted Camera at the Museum of Modern Art last October, Nancy Andrews' full Ima Plume Trilogy was screened at the Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon in November. It was also screened at the San Francisco International Film festival. Andrews was a guest of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, held on the Vassar campus in New York last summer. For the fourth time, Andrews was nominated for a Rockefeller Film/Media Foundation Fellowship, to be announced this spring. A DVD of the trilogy is available: nandrews@coa.edu. Bill Carpenter taught a writing seminar at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts' Open Door Weekend, read poetry on WERU and at a Belfast, Maine New Vaudeville Review, and led a discussion of his book, The Wooden Nickel, for a group of doctors, nurses and others at Eastern Maine Medical Center. Ken Cline gave the presentation, "Thinking Like a Watershed" to the Hancock County Democrats in Ellsworth and to the Good Life Center, the Harborside, Maine center that advances Helen and Scott Nearing's commitment to social justice and simple living. Thanks to the work of Dru Colbert and grant writer Carla Ganiel, COA received a grant of $30,000 from the Quimby Family Foundation to create a green media center to serve as a model of sustainability. Colbert also received a $3,500 grant from the Cricket Foundation for the center. Todd Little-Siebold, faculty member in history and Latin American studies, participated in the Latin American Studies Association's meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico where he organized the workshop, "Archived Memory: Reconstructing Guatemala's Past," and presented the paper, "Guatemalanist Ethnography and the State: Reading the Ethnographic Archive." The Maine Space Grant Consortium gave botanist Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 a $5,000 grant to continue work on plant-soil relations in Maine and a $2,500 grant to organize a work- shop on plants that grow in toxic soils. With B.A. Bohm, Rajakaruna published "The Lasthenia californica story: It started with flavonoids," Natural Product Communications I1:1013-1022. With R. S. Boyd, Rajakaruna contributed "The edaphic factor" to The Encyclopedia of Ecology, edited by S.E. Jorgensen, Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom, currently in press. 50 COA At the Maine Women's Studies Association Conference in November, Bonnie Tai gave a paper with Maria Lis Baiocchi '07 on "A Global Feminization of Teaching: Does it Matter?" Tai also led a curriculum development in-service workshop at SAD 22 on inquiry-based science for K-5 teachers. COMMUNITY NOTES Students Maria Lis Baiocchi '07, Rashmi Bhure '09, Stacie Brimmage '08 (photo), Melody Brimmer '08, Sarah Haughn '08, Hannah Hastings '08, Jessica Woodbury '08 and Mariah Wyman '08 led the discussion, "The Future of Feminism in Human Ecology," with the assistance of faculty members Suzanne Morse, Dave Feldman, and Bonnie Tai during the inaugural weekend seminars, October 7. Moira Brown, former faculty member in marine mammals, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from Canada's International Fund for Animal Welfare for her, "inspiring and tireless work to understand and protect the world's remaining North Atlantic right whale population." John Cooper organized the "Arts Put the 'Human' in Human Ecology" session with arts faculty members Nancy Anderson, JoAnne Carpenter, Dru Colbert, Isabel Mancinelli and Ernie McMullen during the inaugural seminars. Gray Cox, Salahaldin Hussein '06, Olivia Bobadilla Rodriguez '09 and others hosted a roundtable discussion, "The Human Ecology of Terror, War, and Peace in the 21st Century," during the inaugural seminars. Trustee and historian David Hackett Fischer gave the talk, "What is the nature of leader- ship among free people in an open society?" during the inaugural seminars. Grant writer Carla Ganiel announced a grant of $50,000 from the Hillsdale Fund to strengthen recruitment and retention, a grant of $10,215 from the Cabot Family Charitable Trust to support audio-visual upgrades in Gates and a Beech Hill Farm grant from the Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation. Administrative Dean Andy Griffiths taught a class in nonprofit management at Brown University last fall. In exchange, a Brown professor will be giving a lecture in the winter class taught by Jay McNally '84. Tonia Kittelson, director of student leadership and engagement, received $800 from Healthy Acadia to maintain COA's bike fleet with safety equipment and maintenance tools for students, staff and faculty. Rep. Ted Koffman, director of summer programs and community relations, led the discussion, "Mount Desert Island's Changing Landscape: A Human Ecological Approach to Coastal and Community Futures," with trustee and planner Ron Beard, COA Charles Eliot Professor Isabel Mancinelli and GIS director Gordon Longsworth '90 during the inaugural seminars. "The Ecology of Business" discussion was presided over by Jay McNally '84 with Nick Jenei '09 and Samuel Heller '09 during the inaugural seminars. In November, the Ellsworth Public Library hosted "Sean Hugh Murphy: A Show of Photographs" featuring Maine twilight images by COA's webmaster, Sean Murphy. COA's international political negotiators, faculty member Doreen Stabinsky and student Juan Pablo Hoffmeister '07, led the talk, "Contemporary Climate Politics: It's Getting Hot in Here!" during the inauguration weekend seminars. Craig Ten Broeck, director of sustainability, attended the Co-op America Green Business Conference in San Francisco last November along with three students (whose expenses were covered by an alumni donor). Karen Waldron, who organized the inauguration weekend seminars, and trustee Phil Kunhardt '77 led the roundtable discussion, "Environmentalism and Religion: The Political Divide, the Spiritual Connection," with John Visvader, Rich Borden, Gene Myers ('81) and trustee Father Jim Gower. COA 51 FROM THE CHAIRMAN annual report 2006 was a year of change at College of the Atlantic. In July, at an other- wise joyous Asticou Inn celebration, we bade a sad farewell to founding faculty member and thirteen-year COA president, Steve Katona, and to Susan Lerner, his constant colleague through these exciting times. As one last parting gift, we announced the full funding of the Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies. In October, we celebrated the inauguration of David Hales, our fifth president. David comes to COA with broad experience in academia, non-profit advocacy, and international and domestic environmental policy. Under David's leadership, we have brought strategic planning to the fore, creating a team of trustees and staff to address the college's financial sustainability. There are other milestones. Early in 2006, the trustees approved a fund for more equi- table faculty and staff compensation. Additionally, we are now close to fully funding the Katherine W. Davis student housing project of fifty new units, offering students an even greater connection to their campus. We expect to break ground this spring. A student cen- ter is contemplated. Beyond this, there have been changes in the college's landscape dra- matically marked by new signage. The college's distinctiveness lies in its commitment to the interdisciplinary understand- ing of humans, nature and their complex interrelationships, with the intent of improving these connections-the approach we call human ecology. The college pioneered this mode of teaching and learning in the early seventies and perfected it in the ensuing years. As a way of understanding and addressing challenges from Mount Desert Island to the wider developing world, the teaching of human ecology has become more essential than ever. Students respond to this mission. According to the 2006 National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE, students find the education that College of the Atlantic offers is more challenging, interactive, dynamic, critical and supportive than that of many of the top schools in the nation. As I consider the global change unfolding daily, it is rewarding to be connected to an institution dedicated to the betterment of the planet and its inhabitants. I am proud to be associated with the faculty, staff, students, trustees and friends of this college-individuals who built a community of interest around the conservation and sustainable development of Mount Desert Island and have now extended it far into the world beyond. We thank you for your support, and hope that we will continue to earn your confidence during this year-and the years to come. Spn HAMIZ Sam Hamill Chairman 52 COA ANNUAL REPORT Financial Operations Report Operating Revenues FY 2004-2005 FY2005-2006 Tuition and Fees $6,741,000 $7,580,000 Contributions-annual fund $941,000 $833,000 Contributions- restricted $2,534,000 $2,340,000 Investment and endowment income $473,000 $547,000 Government and other grants $806,000 $799,000 Student housing and dining $713,000 $782,000 Summer programs $432,000 $482,000 Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $68,000 $61,000 Research and projects $419,000 $467,000 Beech Hill Farm $135,000 $137,000 Other Sources $79,000 $115,000 Total Revenues $13,341,000 $14,143,000 Operating Expenses Instruction and student activities $2,269,000 $2,586,000 Library $207,000 $225,000 Student housing and dining $512,000 $544,000 Summer programs $274,000 $275,000 Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $159,000 $179,000 Financial aid $4,728,000 $5,365,000 General and administration $1,104,000 $1,177,000 Payroll taxes and fringe benefits $1,197,000 $1,291,000 Development $1,105,000 $932,000 Buildings and grounds $530,000 $586,000 Interest $98,000 $105,000 Grants, research and projects $806,000 $819,000 Beech Hill Farm $161,000 $145,000 Total expenditures $13,150,000 $14,229,000 Excess Revenue (Expense) $191,000 ($86,000) Transfers and capital expenditures ($91,000) $86,000 Net operating surplus (loss) $100,000 $0 COA 53 ANNUAL REPORT With deep gratitude and appreciation Cyrus and Patricia Hagge Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kroeger we acknowledge the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Mrs. Anthony A. Lapham our alumni, trustees and friends. This Hambleton Mrs. Francis Lewis annual report recognizes all those Mrs. Anne Stroud Hannum Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lipkin who made gifts to College of the Hon. and Mrs. Charles Heimbold Ms. Pamela Manice Atlantic from July 1, 2005 through Mr. Henry Hinckley III Mrs. Donald McLean June 30, 2006. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huber Mr. Charles Merrill, Jr. Ms. Sherry Huber Mr. and Mrs. David Milliken THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY Mr. Peter Hunt/The Point Harbor Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken FOUNDER $10,000 + Fund of the Maine Community Mr. and Mrs. A. Fenner Milton Mr. Edward McC. Blair Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. J. Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Kemmerer III Amb. and Mrs. Henry Owen Mrs. Amos Eno Machias Savings Bank Jim and Suzanne Owen Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Mrs. Louis Madeira Ms. Judith Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Mr. and Mrs. David Moore Ms. Gail Perry Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson Peters Mr. and Mrs. Grant McCullagh Dr. Frank Moya/Frank Moya Mr. Bruce Phillips '78 Mr. Jay McNally '84 Charitable Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pierson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Milliken Rev. Albert Neilson John and Carol Rivers Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III / Ms. Sandra Nowicki Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Rogers The Cotswold Foundation Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine/ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Roy Lynn and Willy Osborn The Puffin Fund of the Maine Cynthia Livingston and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Community Foundation Henry Schmelzer Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Mr. Kenneth Simon Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Reeves Mr. and Mrs. Allan Stone Dr. Walter Robinson Mr. Winthrop Short Ms. Ellen Reid Thurman Mr. A. Laingdon Schmitt Southern Maine Wetlands Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan van Dr. and Mrs. Peter Sellers Conservancy Heerden Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sharpe, Jr. Ms. Lisa Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. 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Bernard Horner Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kiel Galyn's Galley Hamilton Horton, McFarland Mr. and Mrs. Kyung Kim Ms. Carla Ganiel Ms. M. Rebecca and Veysey Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. King Ms. Lucretia Gatchell Hancock '97 Howe and Company Mr. Peter Kim '01 Mr. and Mrs. Jon Geiger Mr. and Mrs. John Ms. Jean Howell Margaret V. and Ms. Laurie Geiger Michael Hancock Ms. Jessica Ruth Robert Kinney Ms. Helen D. Geils Ms. Marilyn Handel Hudson '98 Ms. Amy R. Kitay '81 Ms. Amy George '98 Mr. Matthew Hare '84 Mr. Reginald D. Hudson Ms. Barbara Knowles 56 COA ANNUAL REPORT The Knowles Company Mrs. Oliver H. Lowry Ms. Chandreyee Mitra Paul Mr. Greg W. Koehlert '96 Ann Luther and Alan '01 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm E. Ms. Aleda Koehn Vlach Mr. Frank Mocejunas Peabody Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman, Jr. Nancy McCormick and Mrs. Sara Weeks Koffman Ms. Mayo Lynam Paul Monfredo Peabody Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Mr. James MacLeod Mr. Peter W. Moon '90 Mrs. Stephen Pearson Kohrman/Kohrman Mrs. Constance B. 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Marshall Mr. Sean Murphy '77 '99 '87 Ms. Bethany A. Murray Mr. Charles Provonchee Dr. Barbara Kent Mr. Erik Hilson Martin '98 '03 Mr. and Mrs. Hector Lawrence Ms. Kathleen C. Dr. and Mrs. David D. Prud'homme Mr. and Mrs. Massimini '82 Myers Mr. Stephen Pulaski '86 Donald Lawson-Stopps Mr. Stephen Vincent Mr. Olin E. Myers, Jr. '80 Mr. and Mrs. George Ms. Amanda Lazrus- Mather '99 Mr. Michael Nardacci Putnam Cunningham '02 Adele Ursone and Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Quimby House Inn Dr. and Mrs. David Geo Matteson Nathane, Jr. Mona and Louis Rabineau Lebwohl Dr. Robert A. May '81 National Park Tours and Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna Kathryn Harmon '94 Mrs. Anne A. Mazlish Transport, Inc. '94 and Rob Ledo '91 Mr. Francis H. McAdoo, Mrs. Harry R. Neilson, Jr. Ms. Cathy L. Ramsdell Dr. and Mrs. Leung Lee Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. '78 Ms. Juliet Leeming '95 Ms. Lynda Neilson Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mrs. Paulus Leeser McCann-Olson '82 Mr. and Mrs. John H. 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Kent Olson Rockefeller Ms. JoEllen Lindenthal Ms. Jeanne McPherson Ms. Lois Jean Ostrander Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. '87 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mr. Benoni Outerbridge Rogers Dr. John H. Long, Jr. '86 Meade '84 Ms. Allison E. Rogers '04 Dr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Ms. Rebecca Melius '01 Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. Dr. Burt Adelman and Longsworth Mrs. Jean P. Messex Pactor Ms. Lydia Rogers Laura Casey '01 and Ms. Pamela Meyer Ms. Diana Papini Ms. Kelly Rollins '97 Benjamin Lord '99 Mr. Jeffrey Miller '92 Warren '92 Mr. Eric Francois Roos Mr. and Mrs. William G. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller Mr. Robert W. Patterson, '87 Lord II Mr. and Mrs. Henry Millon Jr. Ms. Volha Roshchanka Mr. and Mrs. George Lord Sen. and Mrs. George Ms. Casey Greer Paul '02 '04 Ms. Lu Lovejoy Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. COA 57 ANNUAL REPORT Ross Mr. Edward W. P. Stern Mr. Leo Vincent '92 Zawislak Mr. Jeffrey N. 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Tyson '96 '80 Mr. and Mrs. Irving Soloway Ms. Cindie Umans Ms. Katia Wolf '92 Blickstein Ms. Deborah Soule '81 Union Trust Company Richard Bullock and Ms. Jessica Blystone Mr. John David Ms. Caitlin Marie Unites Carol Woolman Ms. Marta Bonet Speckmann '87 '03 Mr. Jeffrey A. Wooster Mr. Ricardo Bosnic Wendy and Leonard Mary Long and Mr. and Mrs. William Christopher Dorval and Spector Dennis Unites Worthen Elizabeth Britton Mrs. Samuel Spencer Mr. and Mrs. David Vail Prof. and Mrs. W. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ms. Marie St. John Mr. John Van Dewater Wriggins Buffon Lynne and Michael Ms. Katrina Van Dusen Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ms. Sheila Byrd Staggs '97 Ms. Wendy L. Van Dyke Wright Covington and Burling Ms. Margaret Stanton '80 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Steven Depaul and Ms. Heidi Stanton-Drew Ms. Anne Vernon Wright Elisabeth Rendeiro '98 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Ms. Cathleen Wyman Ms. Elizabeth Dudley Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Viechnicki Ms. Jingran Xiao Mr. John Ellicott Stedman Mr. John E. Viele Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mrs. Laura Eakin Erlacher 58 COA ANNUAL REPORT The Harry Frank Mr. A. Laingdon Schmitt Mr. and Mrs. Grant G. > In honor of Guggenheim McCullagh Mitzi Wertheim > In memory of Foundation Ms. Kerri Sands '02 Mr. and Mrs. Irving Priscilla Smith L. Jean Emery and Ms. Fae Jolie-ge Blickstein Ms. Carol Kleinman, MD Stephen Ives, Jr. Silverman '03 Ms. Adeline Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kelly Mr. Frank Twohill '80 MATCHING GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. James > In memory of Albert Lea Seed House, > In honor of Lewis Jesse Tucker '95 Inc. Dr. Walter Robinson III Peg Beaulac and Carl Mrs. Donna Laliberte AT&T Foundation Mrs. Walter Robinson, Jr. Little Bristol-Myers Squibb Adm. and Mrs. T. Joseph > In memory of > In honor of Foundation Linda VanEerde Lopez Donald B. Straus Chubb Corporation Louise Backer and Mr. and Mrs. James Lowy For the Donald B. Straus Deutsche Bank Americas Nicholas Ciciretti Ms. Maya Carol Seminar Room Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael MacGuineas Anonymous Fidelity Foundation Mr. Noble McCartney Gump Nancy Andrews and Ford Motor Company Mr. Alfred Moses Mr. and Mrs. Tim Kamp Dru Colbert Fund Mr. Rolando Ortega Patricia Honea Fleming Freeport-McMoRan Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot GIFTS IN HONOR and Richard Borden Foundation Paine > In honor of Donna Gold and GE Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm IBM International Edward McC. Blair William Carpenter Peabody Foundation Philip and Jack Suzanne Taylor and Ms. Gwen Pearl Don Cass Johnson & Johnson DeNormandie Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ms. Pamela Meyer Mr. Kenneth Cline Microsoft Matching Gifts Pollak Katharine Homans and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Program Project Northstar Patterson Sims Dudman Milliken and Company Mr. and Mrs. George Doreen Stabinsky and Verizon Foundation Putnam > In honor of David Feldman Mr. and Mrs. John Rand Leslie C. 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Mr. Stanley Temko Sam Coplon and Brewer > In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ms. Carolyn Brown Andy Griffiths Isabel Mancinelli Trooboff Nancy McCormick and Mr. Murray Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Becton, Jr. Paul Monfredo Mrs. Virginia Cate Vaughan Gerrish H. Milliken Mr. Louis Cirelli, Jr. > In honor of Foundation Ms. Margaret Clagett > In memory of Steven K. Katona and Ms. Karrie Coburn Dr. Suzanne Morse Dr. Edward J. Meade, Jr. Susan Lerner Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna Mrs. Alyce Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Robert (See also Steven K. Katona '94 Ms. Doris Combs Meade Chair in Marine Studies) Mr. David Rockefeller, Sr. Mr. Philip Contic Mr. Colin Capers '95 > In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Dick Atlee and Davis United World Shorey, Jr. Sarah Corson Valerie Rough College Scholars Sean and Carolyn Todd Ms. Marylouise Cowan Mr. Peter Dyer Program Richard Hilliard and Mr. Timothy Culbertson > In memory of George and Kelly Dickson Karen Waldron Mr. Lee Davis Mary Schmitt MPhil '97 Mrs. Lee Davis COA 59 ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Deborah Della Pia Machia, Jr. Ms. Penny Williams Mr. Edward McC. Blair Ms. Diana Denooy- Mrs. Florence Mackay Ms. Nancy Wilson Mr. and Mrs. John R. H. Aguirre Ms. Holly MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Dick Woehr Blum Mrs. Karen Deterding Ms. Nora Maloney Ms. Victoria Wood Michael Boland '94 Mrs. Allison Di Staulo Ms. Marilyn Marshall Camp Yavneh Ms. Virginia Brennan Ms. Susan Diamond Mr. F. Nathan McKnight Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Ms. Hazel Dietrich Amy and Stewart Murphy ALLIED WHALE Brewer Ms. Tamara Duff Ms. Joann Nahlovsky PROGRAMS Ms. Lorraine Cannatta Melissa and Eric Eckstein Ms. Judith Neher Ms. Judith Allen Ms. Judith Chiara Ella Lewis Elementary Paula and Lee Neuman Barbara Tennent and Criterion Theatres Inc. School Kathleen and Michael Steven Barkan Mrs. John Devlin Mr. and Mrs. Joel Ellis Nicolas Ms. Carolyn Berzinis Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Ms. Donna Erikson Mr. Donald Nolin Mrs. Jean and Will Boddy Dole Ms. Julia Fones Elizabeth and Madeleine Dr. Andrew Campbell Ms. Lucinda Nash Dudley Ms. Natalie Foster Onstwedder Michele and Agnese Mr. Richard Estes Ms Susan Frank Mary Page Cestone Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dawn and Gerald Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mrs. Colleen Copelin Felton Freeman Parker Mr. Millard Dority Thomas and Carroll Ms. Carolyn Gallant Mrs. Christine Patrick Mrs. Tatiana Ertl Fernald Gen. Bryant E. Moore Mr. James Pedersen Mr. Walter Goodnow Ms. Peggy Forster School Ms. Julia Phillips Mr. James Houghton Mr. and Mrs. W. West Ms. Diane Giberson Ms. Barbara Purves Ms. Jennifer Hughes Frazier, IV Mrs. Sandra Gorsuch- Erin Qualls International Whaling Friends of the Arts Fund Plummer Manoja Ratnayake Commission of the Maine Ms. Beth Gosselin Lecamwasam Robert and Kim Jackson Community Ms. Elizabeth Porter Gray Mr. and Mrs. Brian Reilly Ms. Laura Johnson Foundation F.G. Guido Funeral Home, Ms. Denie Reynolds Susan Lerner and Fr. James Gower Inc. Ms. Susan Roberts Steven Katona Ms. Barbara Hagan Ms. Victoria Ms. Gail Rosenkrantz Mr. and Mrs. R. Zackary Mr. and Mrs. Melville Gutschenritter Mrs. Suzanne Russell Klyver Hodder Mrs. Kimberly Haines Safeground Landcare Ms. Brenda Lake Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ms. Joanne Harbluk Dr. Walter Sannita Mr. David Lamon '91 Hutchins Ms. Mary Ann Harriman Ms. Marianne Santoro Ms. Carrol Marie Lange Mrs. R. Duane Iselin Dr. and Mrs. Leonidas Mr. and Mrs. Ronald '99 Dr. and Mrs. Steve Hayes Schmitz Maine Coast Sea Kassels Mrs. Cheryl Henderson Mr. and Mrs. William Vegetables Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Schultz Maine Community Kates Hess, Jr. Mrs. Lois Seamon Foundation Mr. Arthur Keller Ms. Ellen Hixenbaugh Ms. Daria Self Mr. and Mrs. William Ann Luther and Alan Ms. Betsey Holtzmann Ms. Rona Sergeant McFarland Vlach Barbara Brizzee and Ms. Judy Shalvi Ms. Barbara Miller Maine Community John Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ms. Amy Mitchell Foundation Kyriacou Irini Smith Ms. Anna Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mrs. Rose Janus Sara and Roger Soens Corey Papadopoli McCullagh Ms. Melissa Jeffries Mrs. Kathleen Sparkes Ms. Linda Parker Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ms. Cynthia Steele Sage Park Middle School Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. 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Please consider Lynn and Willy Osborn including the college in your annual giv- Mr. Benoni Outerbridge ing. '84 Ms. Ellen Pactor Equally as important, to ensure COA's Mr. and Mrs. Jon Pactor future, consider becoming part of our Mr. Robert Patterson, Jr. planned giving program. Bequests, chari- Mrs. Sara Weeks table gift annuities, charitable reminder Peabody trusts and other similar programs help Mr. and Mrs. Robert the college while also offering you Pennington income tax benefits. Kim and Keating Pepper Ms. Judith Perkins COA 63 Underwater photos by David Obura; Greg Stone photo by Mary Jane Adams In the year 2000, Dr. Greg Stone '82, the hundred years behind land conservation. New England Aquarium's vice president Oceans are opaque. If people could see for global marine programs, visited the the bleached reefs, the clear cutting that Phoenix Islands, eight coral atolls that comes from fishing, they'd be appalled. belong to the Republic of Kiribati, an island nation in the south Pacific northeast of Fiji. Q. Do you think you go about things Stone could not believe their pristine differently because of your degree in beauty. "Nobody had ever looked under human ecology? the water," he said. If they had, they might have noticed, as he did, several new A. Oh, yes. The negotiations to protect the species of fish and one new coral species. Phoenix Islands were very complex and Stone went to work. Six years, uncountable COA prepared me well for it. I worked meetings and 1,500 dives later, on March closely with the president of the country, a 28, 2006, Kiribati (pronounced kee-ree-bas) great, brilliant man. We had to keep the created the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. economic engines spinning and under- At 73,800 square miles, it's the world's third stand the culture and the politics. COA also largest marine wildlife sanctuary, as big as greg gave me what I consider a graduate school Huron, Michigan and Superior lakes com- atmosphere as an undergraduate, working bined. On November 14, 2006, National closely with faculty, which for me was prin- Geographic Adventure recognized Stone cipally Steve Katona. at its first-ever Adventurers of the Year cele- bration, honoring "twelve people who Q. What are you working on now? dared to dream big." A. I am planning an expedition to study sea mountains. There are more mountains in Q. Why a marine sanctuary in the South Pacific? the ocean than on land and they are essen- tial areas of biodiversity. Off Lord Howe A. Globally, the most systemic diversity is Island in Australia, there's a mountain that's in the ocean, and the Phoenix Islands are the size of Mount Rainier. It's 15,000 feet near the oldest part of the ocean, where from the sea floor with peaks three hun- we have some of the highest biodiversity dred feet below the surface. Underwater anywhere. This area is about ten times the mountains are steep and big and full of size of the Serengeti, only instead of ele- life-and you don't have to hike them, you phants, lions and wildebeests, we have can drift around on them with submarines. whales, sharks and huge schools of tuna. But ocean conservation is about one 64 COA THE HUMAN ECOLOGY ESSAY REVISITED When Professors Change: What I learned at COA BY ETTA KRALOVEC When I arrived at COA from New York City, the natu- ral world was for me a thing of beauty, much like a painting in a museum. I was a culture junky, so think- ing of nature that way was just fine with me. I was angry about the state of the environment, but that was really a political position for me. Nature well really, I saw the relationship of humans to nature as problematic, socially-constructed and gender- biased. So 'nature' cut two ways in my mind. While it provided a lovely backdrop for the picnic, as it were, it also provided an excuse for our countless, stupid, human mistakes. I arrived intellectually out-of-sync with COA notions about 'nature.' I was not an advocate of the view that 'the natural' shapes and determines our experience. In fact, I believe human nature doesn't Etta Kralovec relishes the rhythms of her new home in Bisbee, exist, except in the sense of John Dewey's notion Arizona. about its enormous plasticity. And I arrived believing that science was basically a White, male, Western from a male-dominated governance structure that conspiracy. I pictured science as a sort of Wyatt Earp, was built on an out-of-date notion of democracy. rounding up outlaw ideas and jailing them. I now understand that what I saw as dysfunction is Early on I remember standing outside of Turrets really what community is all about. What sets COA watching sea smoke rising from Frenchman Bay and apart in my mind is that it really isn't an institution having Don Cass offer to explain what was happen- like other colleges, it is a community. And communi- ing. I declined his explanation, responding that I pre- ties are very hard to live in. ferred a more poetic understanding of the natural It is not just the natural world that teaches at COA, world. You see, I came to COA believing that science it is the community that teaches. Being in a commu- drowns out poetry and art. nity teaches its members the essential democratic I still don't know what causes sea smoke, but COA habits of mind of tolerance, respect and commit- taught me the importance of building a scientific ment. It teaches that everyone is unique, sees an understanding of the natural world precisely to issue from a slightly different perspective and needs enhance our appreciation and respect for it. Beyond to be heard. It is this learning to be in community, teaching me that science was not, in fact, the cause of both the human and the natural community, that is all the problems in the world, COA didn't change all the real education at COA. the above-mentioned intellectual predilections that I Whether a community can run a college in any arrived with. It did hone my debating skills. And it kind of efficient way is certainly still an open ques- shifted my sense of positioning in the world. tion. But let's not forget that Mussolini may have got- I now know my place-geographically-by the ten the trains to run on time-and at what cost? natural environment. The Arizona night sky and Learning to be a member of a community is per- monsoon season serve to shape the rhythm of my haps the most important learning for us all. And as life, and because of COA, I understand my life Dewey taught, in order to learn to value community rhythms in relation to those of nature. That change and democracy you have to live it. For that learning I was no doubt pushed along by the demands the nat- have COA to thank. ural world in Maine places on its inhabitants, but I believe this repositioning of the human is what COA is really all about, whether we are talking about our Etta Kralovec, COA faculty member in human studies and positioning in relation to nature or each other. This director of teacher education, 1989-1999, is now associate repositioning is learned by being a member of a com- professor of education at University of Arizona South. munity. For it is in community where we learn to kralovec@email.arizona.edu. respect the 'other' and the diversity of views that implies. Readers are encouraged to submit poetry, short stories, While I was at COA, there were the requisite and human ecology essays to COA. Please send your work behind closed-door negotiations, debates over knot- to dgold@coa.edu or Donna Gold, COA Magazine, 105 Eden ty moral issues, fights about policy. This all seemed a Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. rather dysfunctional decision-making process born COA 65 Non-Profit U.S.Postage College of the Atlantic PAID 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Augusta, ME Permit No.121